Intelligent agents and liability: is it a doctrinal problem or merely a problem of explanation?

  • Authors:

  • Emad Abdel Rahim Dahiyat

  • Affiliations:

  • Al-albayt University, Mafraq, Jordan

  • Venue:
  • Artificial Intelligence and Law
  • Year:
  • 2010

  • Software agents as boundary objects

    AICOL'11 Proceedings of the 25th IVR Congress conference on AI Approaches to the Complexity of Legal Systems: models and ethical challenges for legal systems, legal language and legal ontologies, argumentation and software agents

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Abstract

The question of liability in the case of using intelligent agents is far from simple, and cannot sufficiently be answered by deeming the human user as being automatically responsible for all actions and mistakes of his agent. Therefore, this paper is specifically concerned with the significant difficulties which might arise in this regard especially if the technology behind software agents evolves, or is commonly used on a larger scale. Furthermore, this paper contemplates whether or not it is possible to share the responsibility with these agents and what are the main objections surrounding the assumption of considering such agents as responsible entities. This paper, however, is not intended to provide the final answer to all questions and challenges in this regard, but to identify the main components, and provide some perspectives on how to deal with such issue.