Abstract
This question of AI legal personhood is mostly theoretical today. In article we try to generalize some common ways that existing in legal theory and practice. We analyze some cases of recognition of untypical legal persons as well enacted statements in Europe and USA. Readers will not find a detailed methodology in the paper, but rather a list of criteria that is helpful to make a decision on granting legal personhood.
 
 Practices of European Union and the United States indicate that common approaches to the legal personality of some kinds of AI are already developed. Both countries are strongly against legal personhood of intellectual war machines. Liability for any damage of misbehavior of military AI is still on competence of military officers. In case of civil application of AI there are two options. AI could be as legal person or as an agent of business relations with other legal persons. Every legal person has to be recognized as such by society. All untypical legal persons have wide recognition of society. When considering the issue of introducing a new legal person into the legal system, legislators must take into account the rights of already existing subjects. Policy makers have to analyze how such legal innovation will comply with previous legal order, first of all how it will affect the fundamental rights and freedoms of the human beings. The legal personhood of androgenic robots that can imitate human behavior regarded in paper as a good solution to minimize illegal and immoral acts committed with their involvement. It would be a factor that keep people from taking action against robots very similar to people. Authors conclude that key factors would be how society will react to a new legal person, how changing of legal rules will affect legal system and why it is necessary. At least all new untypical legal persons are recognized by society, affects of the legal system in manageable way and brings definite benefits to state and society.
Highlights
Despite intellectual robots still don’t crowd on streets of cities; the question of legal personhood of Artificial intelligence (AI) is quiet interesting for global scientific community
Readers will not find a detailed methodology in the paper, but rather a list of criteria that is helpful to make a decision on granting legal personhood
Practices of European Union and the United States indicate that common approaches to the legal personality of some kinds of AI are already developed
Summary
Despite intellectual robots still don’t crowd on streets of cities; the question of legal personhood of AI is quiet interesting for global scientific community. This question is mostly theoretical today but it seems that we will witness the movement of this issue to a practical sphere within the decade. There is an assumption that after developing a sufficiently intelligent system it will be introduced extremely quickly due to the substantial economic benefits. It implies that society, legal and moral systems will have no time to adapt. What has to be taken into consideration? this is not a detailed methodology, but rather a list of criteria that is helpful to make a decision on granting legal personhood
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