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title: "Fifth Generation Computer Crime Law"
authors:
  - "Jay Bloom Becker"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/255"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1985/0255.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1985
pages: "1274-1277"
track: "General"
keywords:
---

# Fifth Generation Computer Crime Law

Jay Bloom Becker

*Proceedings of the Ninth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1274-1277.

## Abstract

A~.t~e ·~hock absorber" of social change, cr1m1nal law will serve to deal with the most troublesome results o[ the progress in artic ial intelligence and expert systems research ar1d aFplication s. We will have to redefine crimes aqainst the pe rs on , property, publ i c morility, and the public order. To do thi s wi ll require conside ra b le change in our s t anda r ds of culpability, computer p erformance, and the functions of pu nishment.