Personhood to artificial agents: Some ramifications
Thank you, Samir Chopra and Lawrence White for writing this extremely thought-provoking book! Like Sonia Katyal, I too am particularly fascinated by the last chapter – personhood for artificial agents....
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The Law Of The Fire
A corporation, it is said, “is no fiction, no symbol, no piece of the state’s machinery, no collective name for individuals, but a living organism and a real person with a body and members and a will...
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Camel, Weasel, Whale
Samir Chopra—whom I consider to be something of a pioneer in thinking through the philosophic and legal issues around artificial intelligence—did not much care for my initial thoughts about his and...
View ArticleLTAAA Symposium: How Law Responds to Complex Systems
In my first post on A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents, I discussed some of the different kinds of complex systems law deals with. I’d like to continue by considering some of the different...
View ArticleOur Bots, Ourselves
In an extremely forward-looking and thought-provoking book, Samir Chopra and Lawrence F. White rekindle important legal questions with respect to autonomous artificial agents or bots. It was a...
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Speaking of Automated Systems
Thanks so much to everyone participating in the LTAAA symposium: what a terrific discussion. Given my work on Technological Due Process, I could not help but think about troubled public benefits...
View ArticleAutonomous artefacts and the intentional stance
The book “A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents” by Samir Chopra and Laurence White provides a very comprehensive and well written account of a challenging issue, namely, of how the law...
View ArticleReflections on Autonomous Artificial Agents and the law of agency
Many thanks to the organizers for asking me to comment on Samir Chopra and Lawrence White’s book, A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents. I enjoyed thinking about the issues the book raises....
View ArticleAutonomous Agents and Extension of Law: Policymakers Should be Aware of...
This post expands upon a theme from Samir Chopra and Lawrence White’s excellent and thought-provoking book – A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents. One question pervading the text: to what...
View ArticleAutonomous Artificial Agents: Contracting or Expanding?
Is this the book to separate the legal issues of “autonomous artificial agents” from the more controversial questions of whether code or silicon can function as “people”? The one that can stick to the...
View ArticleRobots in the Castle
In thinking about what Samir and Lawrence offer us in their new book, A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents, I am reminded of the old Gothic castle described in Blackstone’s Commentaries,...
View ArticleAn ‘Ethical Turing Test’ for Autonomous Artificial Agents?
My first encounters with legal issues of autonomous artificial agents came a few years ago in international law of autonomous lethal weapons systems. In an email exchange with an eminent computer...
View ArticleLTAAA Symposium: Legal Personhood for Artificial Agents
In this post, I’d like to make some brief remarks on the question of legal personhood for artificial agents, and in so doing, offer a response to Sonia Katyal’s and Ramesh Subramanian’s thoughtful...
View ArticleLTAAA Symposium: Artificial Agents and the Law of Agency
I am gratified that Deborah DeMott, whose work on agency doctrines was so influential in our writing has written such an engaged (and if I may so, positive) response to our attempt, in A Legal Theory...
View ArticleLTAA Symposium: Response to Sutter on Artificial Agents
I’d like to thank Andrew Sutter for his largely critical, but very thought-provoking, response to A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents. In responding to Andrew I will often touch on themes...
View ArticleLTAA Symposium: Response to Matwyshyn on Artificial Agents and Contracting
Andrea Matwyshyn’s reading of the agency analysis of contracting (offered in A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents and also available at SSRN) is very rigorous and raises some very...
View ArticleLTAAA Symposium: Response to Surden on Artificial Agents’ Cognitive Capacities
I want to thank Harry Surden for his rich, technically-informed response to A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents, and importantly, for seizing on an important distinction we make early in...
View ArticleLTAAA Symposium: Response to Pagallo on Legal Personhood
Ugo Pagallo, with whom I had a very useful email exchange a few months ago, has written a very useful response to A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents. I find it useful because I think in...
View ArticleLTAAA Symposium: Complexity, Intentionality, and Artificial Agents
I would like to respond to a series of related posts made by Ken Anderson, Giovanni Sartor, Lawrence Solum, and James Grimmelmann during the LTAAA symposium. In doing so, I will touch on topics that...
View ArticleLTAAA Symposium Wrap-up
I want to wrap up discussion in this wonderful online symposium on A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents that Frank Pasquale and the folks at Concurring Opinions put together. I appreciate...
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