ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: FROM OBJECT TO SUBJECT?

Abstract

Currently, science and technology have come close to the active implementation of artificial intelligence systems in various spheres of society. The purpose of this article is to attempt to identify some of the legal problems that arise or are potentially capable of arising in this connection in the future. With the development of science and technology, artificial intelligence will gradually receive opportunities to perform independent, including legally significant, actions. The article considers artificial intelligence as a thing with the function of artificial intelligence, provided with the help of special programs capable of learning based on the analysis of their own successful and erroneous actions and characterized by autonomous (that is, not requiring operator intervention) work. Today, there is no doubt that artificial intelligence systems are objects of civil law relations. But artificial intelligence is increasingly entering various spheres that were previously considered accessible only to humans - this, in particular, the creation of works of literature and art. The article analyzes the problem of determining the author of such works. Artificial intelligence is also included in those areas where its activity can directly affect the lives and health of people, such as medicine and transport. The article deals with the problem of liability for harm that may be caused by a device with artificial intelligence. The article also considers the possibility of assigning the status of a subject of law to robots with artificial intelligence.