This book takes up the contentious issue of artificial intelligence (AI), and more specifically the evolving nature of AI-mindedness, as a legal entity in society. It will be of considerable interest to scholars and researchers working in legal theory, socio-legal studies, law and technology, and science and technology studies.
This book takes up the contentious issue of artificial intelligence (AI), and more specifically the evolving nature of AI-mindedness, as a legal entity in society. With the increasing potential of AI suggested by the recent surge in creative and administrative tools and large language models, there is a growing concern about the ethical and legal implications of incorporating AI into society. As these systems become even more powerful and their ability to mimic human output grows, the question of whether and how to attribute mental states to AI, even in its most nascent form, has become a pressing concern. It is, for example, unclear what kind of mind AI might be capable of and therefore what the proper legal analogy might be for how we attribute reasoning capability, intent, responsibility, liability, agency, and so on, to it. This book contributes to this new and important area by bringing together front-line research from diverse fields on the topic of understanding ‘AI-mindedness’, and how it – and our relationship to it – might be regulated. Through a collection of chapters, written by experts from law, public administration, tort, psychoanalysis, philosophy, linguistics, computer science and political theory, this volume offers an insightful examination of current research, theoretical frameworks, and practical applications that are shaping the AI-human relationship.This book will be of considerable interest to scholars and researchers working in legal theory, socio-legal studies, law and technology, and science and technology studies.
Part I Introduction: AI Agents in Laws Empire: An Introduction to Law
and the AI-Human Relationship
Chapter 1: Large language models and linguistic
understanding
Chapter 2: The Myth of Artificial Creative Agency
Chapter 3:
The human free will debate, autonomous artificial systems, and artificial
suffering Part II
Chapter 4: Children as the others of technology regulation
Chapter 5: Engaging with non-minds and hybrid others. Philosophical
perspectives on AI and automated decision-making
Chapter 6: I'm sorry to
hear that you are feeling bad: The artificiality and otherness of chatbot
interaction in digital public administration Part III
Chapter 7: Two Routes
to Legal Personhood for AI Entities
Chapter 8: Legal Personhood for AI
Systems?
Chapter 9: Merging with AI: subtle consequences and dubious agency
Part IV
Chapter 10: Legal Personality for AI Systems and Robots From a
Belgian Civil (Extra-Contractual) Liability Perspective Some Food for
(Interdisciplinary) Debate
Chapter 11: Criminal Justice, Artificial
Intelligence, and Parity in Sentencing
Chapter 12: Rule-based AI as
Transparent, Accountable and Adaptable Computational Interpretations of Law
Part V
Chapter 13: If humans and AI disagree: A political approach to
existential risk
Chapter 14: The Democratic Agency of AI
Chapter 15: The rule
of law after the Anthropocene
Henrik Palmer Olsen, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, Professor, Dr. Jur., Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts)
Jacob Livingston Slosser, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Comparative and European Constitutional Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen
Salome Addo Ravn, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen
Johan Eddebo, Associate Professor at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society, Uppsala University
Jonas Hultin Rosenberg, Associate Professor in Political Science at Mälardalen University and visiting researcher at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society at Uppsala University
