Civil Liability and Damage Arising from Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence is no longer just a dream floating in the mind of some people, or an illusive form of a scientific mystery. Indeed, it has become a reality that has a lot of applications simulating human intelligence, and surpassing it indeed in many times. As a matter of fact, the use of robots as well as the artificial intelligence programming in various sectors and fields has raised different types of complicated issues related not only to the responsibility for the procedures of this program, but extending to its feasibility to the current legislations and its capability to accommodate the unique features of this technology. Accordingly, we intend to discuss the current challenges of artificial intelligence, especially the types that have been widely used. Besides, we shall focus on investigating the main characteristics of this technology as well as the national and global framework, which regulates artificial intelligence. The main objective that lies behind our effort in this study is to determine the law that could accommodate the related legal challenges. The importance of this study is attributed to the vitality of its new topic, and that is the civil liability resulting from the damages caused by artificial intelligence, which is considered as an essential product of the fourth industrial revolution. Nowadays, artificial intelligence plays an essential role in the various fields of our daily life, as robots that are based on artificial intelligence are used for medical, military, legal and many other purposes. Despite the fact that artificial intelligence facilitates and accomplishes services and solves very complicated problems in a record time that exceeds human’s abilities, but in case of damage occurrence, it becomes very difficult to identify the person who causes the damage, and therefore the injured shall fail to obtain a compensation. The research hence is divided into two main parts. The first part deals with the civil liability caused by artificial intelligence, while the second part shall investigate the effects resulting from the implementation of civil liability for the damages of artificial intelligence.