Humanizing Machines: Introduction and Overview
Information technology and law series/Information technology & law series, pp. 3–28
Abstract
This chapter provides an introduction to this book (Law and Artificial Intelligence: Regulating AI and Applying it in Legal PracticeLegal practice) and an overview of all the chapters. The book deals with the intersection of law and Artificial Intelligence (AI). Law and AI interact in two different ways, which are both covered in this book: law can regulate AI and AI can be applied in legal practiceLegal practice. AI is a new generation of technologies, mainly characterized by being self-learning and autonomous. This means that AI technologies can continuously improve without (much) human intervention and can make decisions that are not pre-programmed. Artificial Intelligence can mimic human intelligenceHuman intelligence, but not necessarily so. Similarly, when AI is implemented in physical technologies, such as robotsRobots, it can mimic human beings (e.g., socially assistive robotsRobots acting like nurses), but it can also look completely different if it has a more functional shape (e.g., like an industrial arm that picks boxes in a factory). AI without a physical component can sometimes be hardly visible to end users, but evident to those that created and manage the system. In all its different shapes and sizes, AI is rapidly and radically changing the world around us, which may call for regulation in different areas of law. Relevant areas in public lawPublic law include non-discrimination law, labour lawLabour law, humanitarian lawHumanitarian law, constitutional lawConstitutional law, immigration lawImmigration law, criminal lawCriminal law and tax lawTax law. Relevant areas in private lawPrivate law include liability law, intellectual property law, corporate law, competition lawCompetition law and consumer lawConsumer law. At the same time, AI can be applied in legal practiceLegal practice. In this book, the focus is mostly on legal technologies, such as the use of AI in legal teams, law-making, and legal scholarship. This introductory chapter concludes with an overview of the structure of this book, containing introductory chapters on what AI is, chapters on how AI is (or could be) regulated in different areas of both public and private lawPrivate law, chapters on applying AI in legal practiceLegal practice, and chapters on the future of AI and what these developments may entail from a legal perspective.
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eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
eLaw Center for Law and Digital Technologies, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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Affiliation as printed
eLaw - Center for Law and Digital Technologies, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
eLaw Center for Law and Digital Technologies, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands
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