Artificial Intelligence, Humans and the Law

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, 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

Product details

• Authors: Henrik Livingston Slosser Palmer Olsen
• Assisted by: Salome Addo Ravn (Editor), Johan Eddebo (Editor), Jonas Hultin Rosenberg (Editor), Jacob Livingston Slosser (Editor), Henrik Palmer Olsen (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 30.09.2025
• EAN: 9781032934556
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3293455-6
• No. of pages: 324
• Series: Artificial Intelligence, Law and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Sociology, Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy of Mind, LAW / Science & Technology, Systems of law, Political structure & processes, Social Law, Legal aspects of IT, Political structure and processes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Technology Studies, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Digital and information technologies: Legal aspects, IT and Communications law / Postal laws and regulations, Social law and Medical law, IT & Communications law, Theory of Mind;Technology