Artificial Intelligence and the Law: Opportunity and Challenges
Vijaya Bala · ShodhPatra: International Journal of Science and Humanities. · 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the world by enhancing efficiency, accuracy, and decision-making across various sectors including healthcare, education, finance, transportation and agriculture.AI increasingly permeates every aspect of human intelligence like helping automate tasks, analyze large amounts of data, and solve complex problems faster than ever before.AI is not just a tool of convenience but it's becoming an essential driver of innovation, economic growth, and social development.With the opportunities, AI comes with many challenges, including ethical dilemmas, data privacy concerns, job displacement, algorithmic bias, accountability issues, and the risk of misuse.This paper is the introduction to the special issue entitled: 'Artificial Intelligence and the law: Opportunity and challenges'.This paper explores the need to develop and regulate the laws in response to AI advancements and transparency.Through a comprehensive literature review the researcher presents in-depth analysis of ethical, legal and technical challenges associated with creating legal framework for AI system.It also gives a brief overview of recent challenges where AI intersects with legal systems, including data privacy, algorithmic accountability, and intellectual property.It also offers specific recommendations to advance the discussion on legal frameworks and regulatory approaches related to the development and use of Artificial Intelligence.