Legal Regulation of Atificial Beings
Legal Regulation of Atificial Beings

Summary/Abstract: In the connection with a development of informatics there appears a new phenomenon in the society – artificial beings. These beings are gradually beginning to interfere in an everyday human life. They appear in various areas of living. People may communicate with them even without recognizing that they are in a contact with something artificially created. The question is how the law deals with this event. Traditionally there are two points of view – a view de lege lata and a view de lege ferenda. Artificial beings de lege lata can be subordinated above all under the legal definition of a computer program, but also under the definition of a database and even an artwork. A situation with the view de lege ferenda is much more complicated. A discussion about subjectifying of artificial beings arose. The reason why some people would award artificial beings rights and duties is a fact that these entities are no more passive mediators but active autonomous systems with an ability to learn from their own experience and to take control of themselves. There also emerged particular legal problems related to autonomous intelligent agents and multi-agents systems. Dubiousness is especially in matters of legal relations and liability.

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