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Artificial Agents and General Principles of Law by Antje von Ungern-Sternberg is a Social Sciences article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Artificial Agents and General Principles of Law about?
Artificial agents – from autonomous cars and weapon systems to social bots, from profiling and tracking programmes to risk assessment software predicting criminal recidivism or voting behaviour – challenge general principles of national and international law. This article addresses three of these principles: responsibility, explainability, and autonomy. Responsibility requires that actors be held accountable for their actions, including damages and breaches of law. Responsibility for actions and decisions taken by artificial agents can be secured by resorting to strict or objective liability schemes, which do not require human fault and other human factors, or by relocating human fault, i.e. by holding programmers, supervisors, or standard setters accountable. ‘Explainability’ is a term used to characterise that even if artificial agents produce useful and reliable results, it must be explainable how these results are generated. Lawyers have to define those areas of law that require an explanation for artificial agents’ activities, ranging from human rights interferences to, possibly, any form of automated decision-making that affects an individual. Finally, the many uses of artifi
Who reads Artificial Agents and General Principles of Law?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Social Sciences.
- Author
- Antje von Ungern-Sternberg
- Publisher
- Duncker & Humblot GmbH
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Social Sciences