This book focuses on the legal regulation, mainly from an international
law perspective, of autonomous artificial intelligence systems, of their
creations, as well as of the interaction of human and artificial
intelligence. It examines critical questions regarding both the ontology
of autonomous AI systems and the legal implications: what constitutes an
autonomous AI system and what are its unique characteristics? How do
they interact with humans? What would be the implications of combined
artificial and human intelligence? It also explores potentially the most
important questions: what are the implications of these developments for
collective security -from both a state-centered and a human perspective,
as well as for legal systems? Why is international law better positioned
to make such determinations and to create a universal framework for this
new type of legal personality? How can the matrix of obligations and
rights of this new legal personality be construed and what would be the
repercussions for the international community? In order to address these
questions, the book discusses cognitive aspects embedded in the
framework of law, offering insights based on both de lege lata and de
lege ferenda perspectives.