ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AS LEGAL ENTITY IN THE CIVIL LIABILITY CONTEXT

Abstract

Entity issues of artificial intelligence is no longer a purely theoretical question, as technological progress and its practical application is an increasingly common phenomenon, while the artificial intelligence system's ability to learn and to make decisions autonomously determines its subjective nature and increasingly limited ability to consider it as just a complex tool. So, the purpose of the research is to analyse the legal basis and issues related with acceptance of the artificial intelligence as a separate legal entity and peculiarities of civil liability for damages caused by artificial intelligence. The analysis was based on three issues: a concept of artificial intelligence, its possibility to be recognized as a separate legal entity and peculiarities of civil liability for damages caused by it. The research was carried out by employing the logical, the teleological, the systematic analysis, the linguistic, the synthesising methods and the analysis of legal documents. The analysis shows that there is no single concept of artificial intelligence, but the identified specific elements of its definition would simplify its legal regulation as well as only a fully autonomous artificial intelligence has a potential to be recognized as a separate legal entity, so in this case there is an objective need to review the framework for civil liability for damages caused by artificial intelligence in order to establish at least joint and several civil liability of it with the natural person responsible for it.