Yes, you do always need humans to enforce&#x2F;interpret the laws. Don&#x27;t be absurd.<p>The alternative is kind of like that scene in Robocop, except ED-209 is a judge instead of a robot, it sentences you to death rather than killing you directly (the bailiff obeys unquestioningly), and instead of frantically trying to shut the machine down, everybody in the room agrees that you were indeed carrying the gun, and almost certainly still are.<p>You ask for a retrial and it takes 1&#x2F;50th of a second to spit out exactly the same response. The rationale for the verdict is a procedurally generated AST running to 5200 pages, which is incoherent not only to you but also to lawyers and programmers alike. (You are given a copy of it on a USB stick, but no computer to read it with.)<p>A country where laws are applied with absolutely no nuance, context, consideration, empathy or judgement is a petrifying hellscape. A pretty good Black Mirror episode, in fact.<p>E: this is all ignoring how <i>awful</i> human beings are at software development.