My reading is pretty much the same as yours. I think of it in terms of tuples:
{ parents, child, AI_character, lawsuit_dollars }
The AI was trained to minimize lawsuit_dollars. The first two were selected to maximize it. Selected as in "drawn from a pool," not that they necessarily made anything up.
It's obvious that parents and/or child can manipulate the character in the direction of a judgment > 0. It'd be nice if the legal system made sure it's not what happened here.
It's obvious that parents and/or child can manipulate the character in the direction of a judgment > 0. It'd be nice if the legal system made sure it's not what happened here.