The field of artificial intelligence has made tremendous advances in the
last few decades, but as smart as AI is now, it is getting exponentially
smarter and becoming more autonomous in its actions. This raises a host
of challenges to current legal doctrine, including whether the output of
AI entities should count as 'speech', the extent to which AI should be
regulated under antitrust and criminal law statutes, and whether AI
should be considered an independent agent and responsible for its
actions under the law of tort or agency. Containing chapters written by
leading U.S., EU, and International law scholars, the Research
Handbook presents current law, statutes, and regulations on the role of
law in an age of increasingly smart AI, addressing issues of law that
are critical to the evolution of AI and its role in society.
To provide a broad coverage of the topic, the Research Handbook draws
upon free speech doctrine, criminal law, issues of data protection and
privacy, legal rights for increasingly smart AI systems, and a
discussion of jurisdiction for AI entities that will not be 'content' to
stay within the geographical boundaries of any nation state or be tied
to a particular physical location. Using numerous examples and case
studies, the chapter authors discuss the political and jurisdictional
decisions that will have to be made as AI proliferates into society and
transforms our government and social institutions. The Research
Handbook will also introduce designers of artificially intelligent
systems to the legal issues that apply to the make-up and use of AI from
the technologies, algorithms, and analytical techniques.
This essential guide to the U.S., EU, and other International law,
regulations, and statutes which apply to the emerging field of 'law and
AI' will be a valuable reference for scholars and students interested in
information and intellectual property law, privacy, and data protection
as well as to legal theorists and social scientists who write about the
future direction and implications of AI. The Research Handbook will
also serve as an important reference for legal practitioners in
different jurisdictions who may litigate disputes involving AI, and to
computer scientists and engineers actively involved in the design and
use of the next generation of AI systems.
Contributors include: W. Barfield, S. Bayern, S.J. Blodgett-Ford, R.G.A.
Bone, T. Burri, A. Chin, J.A. Cubert, M. de Cock Buning, S. De Conca,
S-.A. Elvy, A. Ezrachi, R. Leenes, Y. Lev-Aretz, A.R. Lodder, R.P. Loui,
T.M. Massaro, L.T. McCarty, J.O. McGinnis, F. Moslein, H. Norton, N.
Packin, U. Pagallo, S. Quattrocolo, W. Samore, F. Shimpo, M.E. Stucke,
R. van den Hoven van Genderen, L. Vertinsky, A. von Ungern-Sternberg,
J.F. Weaver, Y-.H. Weng, I. Wildhaber
