Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence
- Reviews
- The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Table
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 AI for Lawyers
- 2 Computable Law and AI
- Part I Law of Obligations
- Part II Property
- 14 Property/Personhood and AI
- 15 Data and AI
- 16 Intellectual Property Law and AI
- 17 Information Intermediaries and AI
- Part III Corporate and Commercial Law
- Part IV Comparative Perspectives
- Index
14 - Property/Personhood and AI
The Future of Machines
from Part II - Property
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2024
- The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence
- Reviews
- The Cambridge Handbook of Private Law and Artificial Intelligence
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Table
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 AI for Lawyers
- 2 Computable Law and AI
- Part I Law of Obligations
- Part II Property
- 14 Property/Personhood and AI
- 15 Data and AI
- 16 Intellectual Property Law and AI
- 17 Information Intermediaries and AI
- Part III Corporate and Commercial Law
- Part IV Comparative Perspectives
- Index
Summary
The conferral of personhood is a choice made by legal systems, but just because it can be done, does not mean that it should. Analogies made between AI systems and corporations are superficial and flawed. For instance, the demand for asset partitioning does not apply to AI systems in the same way that it does with corporations and may lead to moral hazards. Conferring personhood on AI systems would also need to be accompanied with governance structures equivalent to those that accompany corporate legal personhood. Further, the metaphorical ghost of data as property needs to be exorcised.
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2024