Some Speculation about Artificial Intelligence and Legal Reasoning

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...

Reasoning About Knowledge in Artificial Intelligence

SUMMARY This talk looks at work on reasoning about knowledge within what might be termed "ciassical" AI. That is, it is assumed that the information contained in an intelligent system is for the most part embodied in data structures that explicitly represent the propositions that the system knows or believes, and that queries to this "knowledge base" are handled by applying inference rules in a...

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