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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.
List of contents
Part I Introduction: AI Agents in Law's 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
About the author
Henrik Palmer Olsen, Professor, Dr. Jur., Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.
Jacob Livingston Slosser, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Comparative and European Constitutional Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen; Director of Research, Sapien Institute.
Salome Addo Ravn, Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Private Governance, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.
Johan Eddebo, Associate Professor at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society, Uppsala University; Visiting Researcher at Centre for Glocal Studies, Seijo 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.
