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“Legal personality” of artificial intelligence: methodological problems of scientific reasoning by Ukrainian and EU experts

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The article provides a comprehensive analysis of scientific approaches to the formation of legal regulation of relations arising in the development and use of artificial intelligence technologies, their socio-legal status, as well as social, ethical, methodological, and practical legal issues with an emphasis on the fundamentals of natural legal doctrine. The author’s vision of the concept of human interaction and artificial intelligence from the standpoint of legal relations is given. Emphasis is placed on the need to study the problems that arise in this area, within the framework of information law, as a complex branch of law and sociohumanitarian informology—at the level of an interdisciplinary approach. Ways to improve the mechanisms and methods of legal support in the field of artificial intelligence through the development and implementation of technological and legal methods as an innovative tools and effective tools for special technological impact.

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  1. Department of Problems of Criminal Law, Criminology and the Judiciary, V.M. Koretsky Institute of State and Law of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 4 Tryokhsvyatytelska Str., Kiev, 01601, Ukraine

    Oleksandr M. Kostenko

  2. Department of the Information Society and Law, State Scientific Institution “Institute of Information, Security and Law”, National Academy of Legal Sciences of Ukraine, 70 Pushkinska Str., Kharkiv, 61000, Ukraine

    Konstantin I. Bieliakov

  3. Department of Civil Law, National Academy of the Security Service of Ukraine, 22 Mykhaila Maksymovycha Str., Kiev, 03022, Ukraine

    Oleksandr O. Tykhomyrov

  4. Department of Administrative and Information Law, Faculty of Law, Sumy National Agrarian University, 160 Herasyma Kondratieva Str., Sumy, 40000, Ukraine

    Irina V. Aristova

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Kostenko, O.M., Bieliakov, K.I., Tykhomyrov, O.O. et al. “Legal personality” of artificial intelligence: methodological problems of scientific reasoning by Ukrainian and EU experts. AI & Soc (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01641-0

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