Of Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning

Artificial Intelligence and Legal Responsibility

There are two broad quest ions to be asked. F i r s t , t o what ex ten t ( i f any) can the making of — and the r e s p o n s i b i l i t y f o r — a g iven judgement or d e c i s i o n , or mis take,he a t t r i b u t e d to a_ computer-program? And second, supposing t h a t r e s p o n s i b i l i t y cannot be a t t r i b u t e d to a program, w i t h whom does it l i e ? Who is l e g a l l...

Economic reasoning and artificial intelligence.

The field of artificial intelligence (AI) strives to build rational agents capable of perceiving the world around them and taking actions to advance specified goals. Put another way, AI researchers aim to construct a synthetic homo economicus, the mythical perfectly rational agent of neoclassical economics. We review progress toward creating this new species of machine, machina economicus, and ...

Artificial Intelligence: Legal Research and Law Librarians

Artificial Intelligence: Some Legal Approaches and Implications

Various groups of ascertainable individuals have been granted the status of “persons” under American law, while that status has been denied to other groups This article examines various analogies that might be drawn by courts in deciding whether to extend “person” status to intelligent machines, and the limitations that might be placed upon such recognition As an alternative analysis: this arti...

Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning: A Discussion of the Field and Gardner's Book

Dworkin 1977, 1985) offer insights valuable to AI, their jurisprudential analyses often raise more questions than they answer and their insights, couched in philosophical discourse, are difficult to harness computationally. Much of the knowledge used in legal reasoning is published, codified, and highly indexed. The legal system maintains extremely detailed records of its cases and commentary o...