Legal Person or Agenthood of Artificial Intelligence Technologies
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F61989592%3A15220%2F20%3A73601982" target="_blank" >RIV/61989592:15220/20:73601982 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.ies.ee/bahps/acta-baltica/abhps-8-2/05_Kerikmae-2020-2-05.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.ies.ee/bahps/acta-baltica/abhps-8-2/05_Kerikmae-2020-2-05.pdf</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11590/abhps.2020.2.0" target="_blank" >10.11590/abhps.2020.2.0</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Legal Person or Agenthood of Artificial Intelligence Technologies
Original language description
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is developing rapidly. There are technologies available that fulfil several tasks better than humans can and even behave like humans to some extent. Thus, the situation prompts the question, whether AI should be granted legal person- and/or agenthood? There have been similar situations in history where the legal status of slaves or indigenous peoples was discussed. Still, in those historical questions the subjects under study were always natural persons, i.e. they were living beings belonging to the species homo sapiens. We analyse the situation from moral-ethical and practical perspectives. The final conclusion is that the currently existing AI are still so far removed from humans that there is simply no need to think seriously about legal person- or agenthood. Doing so would mean setting obligations on the AI to follow. This in turn would mean that certain rights in relation to those obligations would have to be granted as well. By all evidence, this is something that humans are not ready to do yet and might never get that far.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50501 - Law
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Acta Baltica Historiae et Philosophiae Scientiarum
ISSN
2228-2009
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
8
Issue of the periodical within the volume
2
Country of publishing house
EE - ESTONIA
Number of pages
20
Pages from-to
73-92
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85098494641