"An extraordinarily good synthesis from an amazing range of
philosophical, legal, and technological sources . . . the book will
appeal to legal academics and students, lawyers involved in
e-commerce and cyberspace legal issues, technologists, moral
philosophers, and intelligent lay readers interested in high tech
issues, privacy, and] robotics."
--Kevin Ashley, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
As corporations and government agencies replace human employees
with online customer service and automated phone systems, we become
accustomed to doing business with nonhuman agents. If artificial
intelligence (AI) technology advances as today's leading
researchers predict, these agents may soon function with such
limited human input that they appear to act independently. When
they achieve that level of autonomy, what legal status should they
have?
Samir Chopra and Laurence F. White present a carefully reasoned
discussion of how existing philosophy and legal theory can
accommodate increasingly sophisticated AI technology. Arguing for
the legal personhood of an artificial agent, the authors discuss
what it means to say it has "knowledge" and the ability to make a
decision. They consider key questions such as who must take
responsibility for an agent's actions, whom the agent serves, and
whether it could face a conflict of interest.
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