Artificial Intelligence and Normative Challenges

Introduction.- Part I - AI and Questions of Personhood and Ethics.- The Peculium of the Robot: Artificial Intelligence and Slave Law.- Legal Personhood for Autonomous AI: Practical Consequences in Private Law.- Artificial Intelligence's Black box: Posing New Ethical and Legal Challenges on Modern Societies.- Part II - AI and Civil Liability.- The role of the autonomous machines at the conclusion of a contract: Contractual responsibility according to current rules of private law and prospects.- Understanding the risks of Artificial Intelligence as a precondition for sound liability regulation.- Part III - AI and Issues of Responsibility and Adjudication.- Attributing Conduct of Autonomous Software Agents with Legal Personality under International Law on State Responsibility.- Algorithmic criminal justice: Is it just a science fiction plot idea?.- Part IV - Intellectual Property Protection and Patentability of AI.- The patentability of AI-related subject matter according to the EPC as implemented by the EPO.- International perspectives on regulatory frameworks: AI through the lens of patent law.- Part V - AI and Human Rights.- What role for social rights during the leap to post or "enhanced" humanism?.- Artificial Intelligence vs Data Protection: How the GDPR Can Help to Develop a Precautionary Regulatory Approach to AI?.- Part VI - AI and Jus ad Bellum-Jus in Bello Questions.- The Use of AI Weapons in Outer Space: Regulatory Challenges.- Performance or explainability? A law of Armed Conflict Perspective