人工智能与法律责任

Artificial Intelligence and Legal Liability

最近,在一本热门的计算机信息处理技术杂志中,提出了一个关于人工智能和法律责任的问题,如果一个行人被自动驾驶汽车杀死了,应该适用什么法律。本文将关注人工智能计算机系统的相关法律责任问题,还将讨论人工智能计算机系统是否需要承担刑事法律责任,谁可能承担;在民事法律中,人工智能程序是作为一种适用产品设计法的产品,还是作为一种适用过失侵权的服务。此外,文章还讨论了销售保证的问题,以及人工智能系统面临的一些实际局限。

A recent issue of a popular computing journal asked which laws would apply if a self-driving car killed a pedestrian.This paper considers the question of legal liability for artificially intelligent computer systems.It discusses whether criminal liability could ever apply; to whom it might apply; and,under civil law,whether an AI program is a product that is subject to product design legislation or a service to which the tort of negligence applies.The issue of sales warranties is also considered.A discussion of some of the practical limitations that AI systems are subject to is also included.