Technology,
Law Practice
Jan. 15, 2021
Legal personhood at the outskirts of spontaneous AI
When it comes to the law and proposed governance of AI, there is a controversial question about whether legal personhood is rightfully or wrongly able to be ascribed to artificial intelligence. A handy means to mull over this conundrum entails taking a somewhat extreme viewpoint and toying with the applicability of legal personhood for an unprecedented form of widespread spontaneous AI referred to as SI (spontaneous intelligence).
Lance Eliot
Chief AI Scientist
Techbrium Inc.
Dr. Lance B. Eliot is a Stanford Fellow and a world-renowned expert on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the Law with over 6.8+ million amassed views of his AI columns. As a seasoned executive and high-tech entrepreneur, he combines practical industry experience with deep academic research and serves as a Stanford Fellow at Stanford University.
There are two major ways to intermix the law and artificial intelligence.
One approach involves applying AI to the law.
The crux of this approach is readily seen via AI that is increasingly being included in LegalTech, thusly expanding and easing the use of computer-based systems for legal professionals. Consider for example the ongoing efforts to leverage natural language processing capabilities...
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