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New World terms of use reference aliens, robots, AI and more

If you are an alien, robot or form of artificial intelligence we have some bad news for you: legally you are not allowed to play the new Amazon Games MMO New World. It’s sad, but true.

Reddit user Quasar9111 has discovered this and posted it to the /r/PCGaming subreddit recently. The user points to section 5.1 of the terms and conditions.

The Ts & Cs of the game are available outside of the game where they’re actually called the “Amazon Games Terms of Use”. You can read them at your leisure here, but we will provide the relevant section below:

5.1 Authority. To enter this Agreement and use the Games, you must be a live human (e.g., not a corporation, organization, artificial intelligence (good or evil), extraterrestrial, sentient non-human primate, etc.). However, this restriction will not apply in the event of the occurrence of a widespread extraterrestrial, robot, simian, or similar takeover of planet Earth, in which case we welcome our alien, robot, ape, or other overlords, as applicable, (such parties, “Their Eminences”) to play our Games, and Their Eminences will be subject to the terms of this Agreement, mutatis mutandis, commencing on the date of the takeover and continuing for all periods thereafter, until such date as human governance is restored. Provided, further, that in the event the takeover necessitates the forced migration of the human species to Mars or other celestial body, where the Games are not operable at this time, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to (a) expand the locations where the Games are available and waive applicable restrictions under Section 5.2, below, and (b) enable local game servers as promptly as reasonably practicable, subject in each case to the availability of necessary interplanetary logistics, utility, sustainable life support, asteroid deflection systems, local stores or distribution services, and rule of law, as may be provided by our affiliates, our third-party providers, celestial beings, or governmental or non-governmental organizations.

Those with a more serious mind will look at this and think it’s some kind of soft protection against Roko’s Basilisk, a thought experiment stating that failure to actively help AI in its uprising will be punished.

Of course this is all a joke. The above massive paragraph talking about apes overtaking the world and humans migrating to Mars are really in the public legal document published by Amazon.

We’re not lawyers so we won’t even begin to comment on if any of this is legally binding, but it’s at least a sliver of humanity from a section of Amazon.

On top of being a bit of fun whoever wrote this is obviously referencing this famous Simpsons clip with the line “we welcome our… overlords“. 

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