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Old 10-22-2021, 01:21 PM   #5
malloyd
 
Join Date: Jun 2006
Default Re: Jobs for Ghost vs SAIs

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Originally Posted by Phil Masters View Post
Property can't usually enter into contracts.
It usually can't attempt to either, so this is an area I expect will need quite a bit of evolution of the law. Even now if give out your credit card number over the phone or online, it's generally considered that you authorized the charge, even though there is no evidence it wasn't an independent action on the part of your telephone. The issue of what you are responsible for when your kids bill your credit card, or how long remote sites or automatic payment systems can assume your authorization to bill you is valid for are stuff that's been in the courts and before legislatures repeatedly in the last three decades.

I'd assume by the time SAIs have been around a few decades that there is some formal legal mechanism you could authorize them to make at least small transactions for you in a legally binding way - nobody wants to have to jump through hoops to prove you *aren't* an SAI when you order groceries, but nobody wants to ship stuff only to have you refuse to pay because the contract wasn't binding either.
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