According to research titled ‘Artificial Intelligence and Interspecific Law,’ non-human entities such as AI-operated enterprises must be permitted to enter the legal system as a new “species” and have rights in the law books.
According to the writers Daniel Gervais and John Nay, AI has progressed to the point where it can act as a legal subject with rights and obligations.
The claim was made only days before a global technology summit in London led by UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, which would push for global duty to take artificial intelligence seriously.
What does it imply?
The authors believe that before artificial intelligence’s regulatory framework in various regions of the world grows complex, “interspecific” legal frameworks in which artificial intelligence can be treated as legal subjects must be constructed.
Who are the legal frameworks currently affecting?
So far, legal systems have focused on humans. Animals, for example, are granted legal rights through human proxies. In some circumstances, non-human subjects’ legal rights address human obligations as they relate to them.
However, in certain countries, such as the United States, corporations are recognized as “artificial persons” under the legal system.
According to the writers, nothing normally precludes an AI from operating a corporate entity.
“As the idea of ceasing AI development and use is highly unrealistic, including regulating AI by treating the machines as legally inferior to humans or engineering AI systems to be law-abiding and bringing them into the legal fold now before it becomes too complicated to do so,” they said.