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Chinen, Mark --- "Law and Autonomous Machines" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019) [2019] ELECD 1021

Editor(s): Chinen, Mark

Title: Law and Autonomous Machines

Sub-title: The Co-evolution of Legal Responsibility and Technology

Series: Elgar Law, Technology and Society series

Topics: Internet and Technology Law

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Date of Publication: 31 May 2019

Number of pages: c 264

Abstract/Description:

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 strengthens 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.