Law and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Abstract

We live in an era of accelerating technological post-humanization in which
the form and capacities of human and artificial agents are converging in an
unsettling way. Emerging technology in the sphere of artificial intelligence is not just
one of the most important topics as it relates to the future of humanity. This paper
will examine a technological evolution in the context of an exponential
computational growth for the last 4 0 years. It will suggest a regulatory framework
for the artificial computational agents, namely, artificial intelligence systems. It will
also seek to explore the legal culpability and liability of different classes of humanAI interactions at the levels of the programmer, the procurers or manufacturers, and
the end users. Both of the artificial narrow intelligence (ANI) and the more robust
computational systems (AGI/ASI) will also be investigated. In each of the classes of
the users, the paper will question whether or not a negligence or strict liability
standard for the harm which occurs is appropriate. In addition, this paper will seek
to use fundamental concepts of autonomy, agency and liability in order to describe
the future of artificial intelligence. Moreover, technological progress heralds brand
new conundrums: Could autonomous artificial agents be endowed with a legal
personhood? How practical and economic reasons could justify software agents in
order to gain a legal personality?