It’ll be the default, certainly. But I suspect there’s going to be enough room for lawyers to play that it’ll stay wrapped up in red tape for many years. (Interestingly, I think that might actually make it more dangerous in some ways—if we really do leapfrog humans on intelligence, giving it years while we wait on lawyers might be a dangerous thing to do. OTOH, there’s generally no truckloads of silicon chips going into the middle of a legal dispute like that, so it might slow things down too.)
It’ll be the default, certainly. But I suspect there’s going to be enough room for lawyers to play that it’ll stay wrapped up in red tape for many years. (Interestingly, I think that might actually make it more dangerous in some ways—if we really do leapfrog humans on intelligence, giving it years while we wait on lawyers might be a dangerous thing to do. OTOH, there’s generally no truckloads of silicon chips going into the middle of a legal dispute like that, so it might slow things down too.)