Blog post — What happens when autonomous robots are not regulated or on the contrary, qualify as subjects of law?
Hereby I will present one set of possible introductory questions to be considered when dealing with the issue of the liability of autonomous agents, followed by my analysis of the subject. On top of that, I will scrutinise the suggestion, made by some, that autonomous agents should be made subjects of law.
In my article I will mainly touch upon problems in dire need of solutions. I will not go into the details of the possible solutions themselves, for it is a subject far exceeding the span of this article, and a process that would probably need to be implemented in several phases. Another argument for separating the assessment of the problems from the deliberation of the solutions, is that it could easily lead to a considerable confusion, especially when people of different backgrounds and expertise are involved. Thus far it appears, that different people interpret even the basic terms differently. Therefore it would be helpful to start untangling this problem from the very beginning, by first asking the “why’s”.