INTRODUCTORY NOTE
… The Report on Artificial Intelligence and Civil Liability addresses the potential for artificial intelligence to cause harm to persons, property, and other interests protected by the current law of torts and offers answers to the questions ‘Who is, or should be, liable for choices made by intelligent machines operating autonomously, and when?’ The report begins with an acknowledgement that there is no single, comprehensive definition of artificial intelligence and draws on a cross-section of existing definitions to provide a non-technical explanation of what that term is generally understood to comprise. It analyzes why difficulties emerge in attempting to apply legal rules that developed over centuries to provide redress for wrongful conduct by human tortfeasors to situations where harm results from the autonomous operation of an artificial ‘mind’. It sets out recommendations for adapting existing tort principles to address these novel circumstances, which include the potential for serious harm to individuals and classes of persons through ‘algorithmic discrimination’, the replication and amplification of undetected biases hidden in algorithms and data …
British Columbia Law Institute, Report on Artificial Intelligence and Civil Liability (BCLI Report no 96, April 2024).
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