Artificial Intelligence and civil Law: lines of thought about tort

Abstract

Let's be honest, robots scare us. This feeling has been largely forged by the cinema: robots that control the earth and turn humans into their slaves. If we remain honest, no one wants to give up a tool with the potential of artificial intelligence. In the face of both opinions of fear and necessity, recourse to the law is imperative to establish the rules and guidelines that will mark our relationship with robots, present and future, and with the changes that it will bring about in our society. The advance of technology shows that research from a legal perspective is vital, showing special interest in the civil liability that derives from the damage generated by increasingly intelligent and autonomous machines and in the privacy and transparency in the handling of data. This study connects civil law with technological advances and the legal problems that derive from them. It discusses in particular issues such as the suitability of a specific branch for the subject, the attribution of personality to these technological entities, the orientation that civil liability should follow for damages caused by more autonomous systems and the path to be followed to effectively protect our privacy. It is time, after the publications on the subject, to recapitulate and rethink in order to continue moving forward.