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International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security (국제컴퓨터통신보호논문지학회)
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Transformation of Legal Personality in the Context of the Development of Modern Digital Technologies

  • Amelin, Roman (N.G. Chernyshevsky Saratov National Research State University) ;
  • Channov, Sergey (Volga Region Institute of Management named after P.A. Stolypin - branch of Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration) ;
  • Dobrobaba, Marina (O.E. Kutafin Moscow State Law University) ;
  • Kalinina, Larisa (Russian Customs Academy) ;
  • Kholodnaya, Elena (O.E. Kutafin Moscow State Law University)
  • Received : 2022.11.05
  • Published : 2022.11.30
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Abstract

The article explores the prospects and trends for the transformation of some basic concepts of law associated with the development of artificial intelligence systems and the problems of liability for harm caused by a robot. The prospects, conditions and consequences of vesting robots with partial (quasi) or full legal personality are explored. This process should lead to a revision of the concepts of will, subjective side and legal responsibility in the direction of their greater universalization. The legally significant signs of will, legal personality, legal liability in relation to robots, artificial intelligence systems and other complex automated information systems are clarified. The author identifies the following essential factors of legal qualification of an act committed by a robot: goals, reasons for setting goals, connections between the planned result and the action taken, the actual result, the reasons for the difference between the actual result and the planned one. The article pays special attention to the preventive function of legal liability, which, when applied to robot subjects, can be expressed in the following basic procedures. 1. Accounting for legal requirements in the behavior of the robot. 2. Timely adaptation of the robot to changes in legislation and other regulatory legal acts that affect its behavior. 3. Accounting for incidents. 4. Destruction of a series of robots whose actions lead to unacceptable consequences.

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Acknowledgement

The research was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research within the framework of the scientific project No. 20-011-00355 ("The evolution of law under the influence of modern digital technologies").

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