Legal issues within ambient intelligence environments

Abstract

Juris-informatics is a new research area which has emerged from the pervasive presence of sophisticated artifacts in the everyday scenery, for example every human activity, such as planning a journey, applying for a job, shopping, attending a course, etc. involves the use of intelligent ICT. Within these artificial intelligence environments, where the coexistence of living and non-living entities is their intrinsic characteristic, the main priority is ensuring a harmonious symbiosis of their stakeholders. This, in turn, leads to insoluble legal conflicts which are created by the fact that all the involved entities do not have the same liability against written law. The aim of this paper is to emphasize, by setting out some imaginative scenarios, yet posing real, everyday situations/questions, the lack of legal framework within artificial intelligence environments, which may lead to a dystopian society. Based on each such scenario, emerging legal issues are described that need to be tackled.