Law and autonomous machines : the co-evolution of legal responsibility and technology / Mark Chinen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chinen, Mark, author.

Contributor:

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Series:

Elgar law, technology and society.

Elgar law, technology and society series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Artificial intelligence--Law and legislation.

Artificial intelligence.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (260 pages).

Place of Publication:

Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., 2019.

Summary:

This book sets out a possible trajectory for the co-development of legal responsibility on the one hand and artificial intelligence and the machines and systems driven by it on the other. As autonomous technologies become more sophisticated it will be harder to attribute harms caused by them to the humans who design or work with them. This will put pressure on legal responsibility and autonomous technologies to co-evolve. Mark Chinen illustrates how these factors strengthen incentives to develop even more advanced systems, which in turn inspire nascent calls to grant legal and moral status to autonomous machines. This book is a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners of legal doctrine, ethics and autonomous technologies, as well as legislators and policy makers, and engineers and designers who are interested in the broader implications of their work.

Contents:

Contents: Preface

Part I: The rise of autonomous technologies and current law

1. The emerging challenge

2. Existing law and other forms of governance

Part II: Individual and group responsibility

3. Individual responsibility

4. The legal and moral responsibility of groups

Part III: Reimagining responsibility and the responsible agent

5. Reframing responsibility

6. Altering the responsible agent

Part IV: Ethical AI

7. Law-abiding machines and systems

8. Moral machines and systems

9. Machines and systems as legal and moral subjects

Part V: Conclusions

10. Trigger events

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-78643-659-0