# kaal:claim:2740477-007

**Claim.** Artificial intelligence cannot be held personally liable for damage it causes because national and international law do not currently recognize it as a subject of law, so compensation must be forced through existing provisions never designed for it.

**Type.** failure  **Support.** argued

**Holds when.**

- current state of national and international law
- damage caused by autonomous AI

**Source quote.**

> However, national and international law do not (currently) recognize AI as a subject of law. Without legal personality, AI cannot be personally liable for damages.

**From.** Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, *Venture Capital as Dynamic Regulation of Disruptive Innovation* (2016), IV. Disruptive Innovation as a Regulatory Challenge, page 16

**Cite as.** Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P.M. Vermeulen, Venture Capital as Dynamic Regulation of Disruptive Innovation (2016). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2740477

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**Failure mode.** AI liability gap from absent legal personality  (family: legal-personality-and-liability-gap)

**Topics.** ai-and-agents, law-and-legal-systems

**Keywords.** artificial-intelligence, legal-personality, liability, regulatory-gap

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