kaal:claim:2834531-002

Because neither national nor international law recognizes artificial intelligence as a subject of law, AI has no legal personality and therefore cannot itself be held liable for the damages it causes.

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Because national and international law do not currently recognize AI as a subject of law, AI has no legal personality and as such cannot be held personally liable for damages.
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Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Regulation Tomorrow What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law (2017), III. THE FACTUAL BASIS OF MODERN REGULATION, p. 8
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Mark Fenwick, Wulf A. Kaal, Erik P. M. Vermeulen, Regulation Tomorrow What Happens When Technology Is Faster Than the Law (2017). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2834531

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mechanismsupport: assertedfailure: liability gap for autonomous systemsfamily: legal-personality-and-liability-gapai-and-agentslaw-and-legal-systems

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