Legal and Ethical Considerations of Artificial Intelligence and its Effects on the Creation of Norms

Abstract

In our study, we will endeavour to present a comprehensive overview of a number of areas where the application of artificial intelligence and robotics may raise significant ethical issues. The authors will attempt to emphasize that the rise of human-to-machine and machine-to-machine communication will necessitate an entirely new approach to creating social norms, a fact that is far more important than the technological details and nuances of AI found in academic literature. The central question of this norm creation will be whether the regulation of machines is to be dominated by a technical process of rules, standards, protocols and ontologies or, on the contrary, a democratic regulation relying on the state and a citizens’ drive for a fair and just distribution of goods. The current technologisation of legal systems seems to herald the advent of the former, creating a less humane world. But the opposite is also possible. It solely depends on us.