如何研究新技术对法律制度提出的问题?——以研究人工智能对知识产权制度的影响为例

How to Study Questions Raised by New Technologies to Legal System? From the Perspective of the Study on Artificial Intelligence’ Implications on Intellectual Property System

新技术对法律制度具有不同影响.有时新技术并未带来新的法律问题,现行法在经过合理解释后完全可以适用.有时新技术只是凸显了原先存在的问题,没有产生需要研究的新问题.在研究新技术对法律制度提出的新问题时,应先确认该新问题真实存在,有科学证据作为支撑.对于人工智能时代个人隐私及算法的保护问题,现行法中已有回应,或者属于原先就已存在的问题.人工智能生成的内容是否可作为作品受到著作权法保护,是值得研究的新问题.但以未来将出现具有独立思维能力的强人工智能为前提,研究强人工智能发明创造的可专利性,似过于超前.

Abstract:Different new technologies have different implications on the legal system.Some of them do not bring new legal problems,and the current law may apply well after reasonable interpretation.Some new technologies just underline the existing unsolved problems while no new problems need to be studied.In doing a research on challenges posed by a new technology,there should be scientific evidence to show that the problem as the subject matter of the research really exists.The protection of privacy and protectability of algorism in the era of artificial intelligence are old questions arise before the development of artificial intelligence,and have been addressed by the existing law.The copyrightability of content produced by artificial intelligence is a new problem that deserves research.On the contrast,it is too early to study patentability of inventions made by artificial intelligent on the presumption that the strong artificial intelligent is able to think independently in future.