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Introduction: Artificial Intelligence and the Law

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 June 2020

Ryan Abbott
Ryan Abbott
Affiliation:
University of Surrey School of Law
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This chapter explains the need for AI legal neutrality and discusses its benefits and limitations. It then provides an overview of its application in tax, tort, intellectual property, and criminal law. Law is vitally important to the development of AI, and AI will have a transformative effect on the law given that many legal rules are based on standards of human behavior that will be automated. As AI increasingly steps into the shoes of people, it will need to be treated more like a person, and more importantly, sometimes people will need to be treated more like AI.

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Artificial intelligencelaw and policylaw and technologyintellectual property lawtortscriminal lawtax policyprinciples of regulationinnovation policyfuture of work
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The Reasonable Robot
Artificial Intelligence and the Law
 , pp. 1 - 17
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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