On Possibility of Perception of Modern Spanish Law Concepts of Legal Personality for Artificial Intelligence: A View from Russia

Abstract

Social life and technical innovations are always ahead of their legal regulation. This calls for a consistent reconsideration, renewal and improvement of currently existing legislation. Scientific discussions are now being held in Spain looking into the possibility of granting legal personality to robots. The increasing presence of artificial intelligence in our everyday life is rather objective. Nevertheless, it causes people’s inconvenience and anxiety. It is difficult for the legislator to define the level of his impact which he or she can actually have on the problems of legal regulation of the usage of using the artificial intelligence, including the issues concerning prevention of crimes that involve robots. The purpose of the following article is to study a number of concepts of legal personality of artificial intelligence in Spain. Some possibilities of proving a legal framework in the Spanish legislation for these concepts are considered. A number of probable problems caused by the vagueness of robots’ legal status are examined. The opportunity of perception of artificial intelligence as a subject of law in Spanish legislation is determined. The leading methods of this research were systematic and comparative approaches, methods of synthesis and analysis, which allowed to analyze, summarize and systematize the concepts of legal personality of artificial intelligence in Spain. As a result of studying the following issues, the authors came to the conclusion that there exists a crucial need to establish some limits of legal personality of robots. The public need for formation of a certain legal framework allowing to resolve ethical and legal conflicts with participation of artificial intelligence was discovered. The endeavor of society to harmonize the legislation in the field of robotics at the international level was revealed. The necessity of hindering the usage of robots for criminal purposes was proved.