LEGAL CONSTRAINTS ON CIVIL LIABILITY RULES APPLICABLE TO ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TECHNOLOGIES

Abstract

The accelerating development of artificial intelligence poses a new and formidable challenge to the existing rules of civil liability, whose fundamental purpose is to compensate injured parties for harm suffered as a result of fault or a breach of legal obligation. As intelligent systems become increasingly integrated across diverse fields, the need has emerged to adapt current legal frameworks so as to encompass the damages arising from the actions of these non-human entities. Against this backdrop, multiple theories of liability attribution have come to the fore: liability arising from contractual relationships; the vicarious liability of the principal for the acts of its agent; the treatment of artificial intelligence as a thing subject to the custodianship regime; and the imputation of liability to either the producer or a designated human proxy.