Artificial intelligence and private law
Shawn Bayern · Edward Elgar Publishing eBooks · 2018
In focusing on how to regulate artificial intelligence, legal and policy analysts have paid insufficient attention to the fundamental structures of the private law, including contract law and the law of organizational governance. Artificially intelligent systems may already engage with these areas of law in surprising but potentially useful ways. This chapter discusses several possibilities that result from the flexible ability of private legal instruments to assign legal significance to the action of artificially intelligent systems.