Artificial intelligence: legal problems and risks

The use of digital technologies and artificial intelligence are today's realities. Undoubtedly, there are many advantages of artificial intelligence – it reduces costs, resources, and time for rapid analysis of large amounts of data, an increase in productivity, making more accurate forecasts in various spheres of life, the ability to simultaneously perform many tasks and more. However, the use of artificial intelligence is also accompanied by several legal problems and risks, which can result in damage. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to identify legal problems in the use of artificial intelligence and to outline approaches to the distribution of risks associated with the use of artificial intelligence. The paper, based on systems analysis using dialectical, comparative, logical-dogmatic and other approaches, outlines the problem situations that arise in connection with the use of artificial intelligence and suggests ways to solve them. In particular, among the problems of using artificial intelligence are listed: identification of the person responsible for the damage caused by artificial intelligence; gaps in the legal regulation of relations in the use of digital technologies, which complicates the protection of the rights and legitimate interests of individuals and legal entities; the impossibility in many cases of applying the current rules of civil liability for damage caused by the use of artificial intelligence. The directions for solving such problems can be: determination of the status of electronic persons and their legal personality, the moment of its occurrence and termination while addressing the issue of identification of robots and artificial intelligence; resolving the issue of liability for damage caused by artificial intelligence, based on how autonomous such artificial intelligence was; the application of the rules of compensation for damage caused by a source of increased danger to the relationship with the use of digital technologies, based on whether the damage caused by the action or inaction of artificial intelligence was predictable

tort, liability, civil law, digital technologies, confidentiality