Liability for Operation and Damages Caused by Artificial Intelligence – with a Short Outlook to Online Games
Liability for Operation and Damages Caused by Artificial Intelligence – with a Short Outlook to Online Games

Summary/Abstract: Who should bear the legal responsibility if an artificial intelligence entity programmed to substitute somehow human deciding ability causes damage during working? Problems arising from the rapid development of emerging technology raise such legal questions, too, because the ways of its advancement are difficult to predict. This paper was written to analyze legal issues affecting software that iscontrolled by artificial intelligence and answer the question who should bear the liability for their function or even malfunction. Firstly, the general characteristics of artificial intelligence and its effects on our society are described, then the relationship of artificial intelligence and law covering the related current regulatory environment and its critics. The main question will be the liability for damages caused by such entities in Civil Law. In the last chapter of the essay, I draw up the behavior of AI in online virtual worlds and the legal problems in connection with them. The paper was written in order to stimulate interest in the special field of relationship between AI and law and because articles dealing with the aforementioned problem in scientific literature are barely to be found.

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