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Artificial intelligence (AI) - both in its current, comparatively limited form and even more so in its potential future forms (such as general and superintelligence) - has raised both concerns and hopes. Its actual and potential consequences are increasingly far-reaching, affecting almost every facet of human life on a collective and individual level: from the use of mobile phones and social media to autonomous weapons, and from the digitalization of knowledge and information to the patentability of AI innovations, unexpected philosophical, ontological, political and legal questions continue to arise.This book offers an insightful and essential guide to the scientific questions that are shaping humanity's present and future. Presenting a collection of academic essays written by prominent scholars, it addresses the major legal issues concerning AI: its impact on a wide range of human behavior and the general legal response, including questions on AI and legal personhood;responsibility, liability and culpability in the age of AI; the challenges AI poses for intellectual property regimes; human rights challenges; and AI's impact on jus ad bellum and jus in bello.Given its scope, the book will appeal to researchers, scholars and practitioners seeking a guide to this rapidly transforming landscape.
List of contents
Introduction.- Part I - AI and Questions of Personhood and Ethics.- The Peculium of the Robot: Artificial Intelligence and Slave Law.- Legal Personhood for Autonomous AI: Practical Consequences in Private Law.- Artificial Intelligence's Black box: Posing New Ethical and Legal Challenges on Modern Societies.- Part II - AI and Civil Liability.- The role of the autonomous machines at the conclusion of a contract: Contractual responsibility according to current rules of private law and prospects.- Understanding the risks of Artificial Intelligence as a precondition for sound liability regulation.- Part III - AI and Issues of Responsibility and Adjudication.- Attributing Conduct of Autonomous Software Agents with Legal Personality under International Law on State Responsibility.- Algorithmic criminal justice: Is it just a science fiction plot idea?.- Part IV - Intellectual Property Protection and Patentability of AI.- The patentability of AI-related subject matter according to the EPC as implemented by the EPO.- International perspectives on regulatory frameworks: AI through the lens of patent law.- Part V - AI and Human Rights.- What role for social rights during the leap to post or "enhanced" humanism?.- Artificial Intelligence vs Data Protection: How the GDPR Can Help to Develop a Precautionary Regulatory Approach to AI?.- Part VI - AI and Jus ad Bellum-Jus in Bello Questions.- The Use of AI Weapons in Outer Space: Regulatory Challenges.- Performance or explainability? A law of Armed Conflict Perspective
About the author
Angelos Kornilakis is an associate professor of civil law, Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, holding a PhD from JW Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main. He has taught in Greek, German and Swiss Universities and his research interests include the theory of private law, economics of law, digital economy & private law. He has published extensively in this field, in Greek, English and German. He is a Coordinator of the Research Team on "Digital Economy & Private Law", Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Georgios Nouskalis is Assistant Professor of Criminal Law at the Law School of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He is a S
upreme Court Lawyer (1992-2023) and a member of the Volunteer Lawyers' Network of Therapy Center for Dependent People (KETHEA). He has published extensively on computer related crimes.
Vassilis Pergantis is an assistant professor of public international law, Law Faculty, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and academic coordinator of a Jean Monnet Project on "EU Responsibility in the International System [EURIS]". His fields of interest focus on the theory of international law and the sources doctrine, the law of international organisations, international responsibility, as well as human rights. He has published extensively in English, French and Greek.
Themis Tzimas is adjunct lecturer at the School of Political Sciences of the Democritus University of Thrace. He introduced and taught the module "Artificial Intelligence, Political Theories and International Relations". He currently teaches "Public Policies".
