This interdisciplinary textbook serves as a solid introduction to the future of legal education against the background of the widespread use of AI written by colleagues from different disciplines, e.g. law, philosophy/ethics, economy, and computer science, whose common interest concerns AI and its impact on legal and ethical issues. The book provides, first, a general overview of the effects of AI on major disciplines such as ethics, law, economy, political science, and healthcare. Secondly, it offers a comprehensive analysis of major key issues concerning law: (a) AI decision-making, (b) rights, status, and responsibility, (c) regulation and standardisation, and (d) education.
John-Stewart Gordon, Ph.D. (2005) in philosophy at the University of Göttingen, is an associated member of the IZEW at the University of Tübingen and permanent visiting professor at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania. He has written and (co-)edited numerous books in the context of practical philosophy and published many peer-reviewed articles and special issues in leading international journals and encyclopaedias.
Series Editor:
John-Stewart Gordon (International Center for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen, Germany)
Editorial Board:
Will Kymlicka (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada)
Thomas Pogge (Yale University, New Haven, USA)
Michael Boylan (Marymount University, Arlington, USA)
Christopher A. Riddle (Utica College, New York, USA)
Christoph Horn (University of Bonn, Germany)
Claudio Corradetti (University of Rome 'Tor Vergata', Italy)
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1 General Introduction
John-Stewart Gordon
Part 1 The Impact of
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on Major Disciplines
Introduction to Part 1
2 Ethics
John-Stewart Gordon and Kęstutis Mosakas
3 Transformative Smart Technologies: Mapping Challenges of Private Law
Julija Kiršienė, Edita Gruodytė and Deividas Kiršys
4 The Economy
Paulius Čerka
5 Political Science:
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Governance
Karolis Kubilevičius and Tomas Berkmanas
6 The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Healthcare
Giedrė Kvedaravičienė, Adam Poulsen and Milda Žaliauskaitė
Part 2 Major Key Issues:
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Decision Making
Introduction to Part 2
7 Machine Bias
Vladislav V. Fomin
8 Ethical Programming and Machine Moral Agency
Kęstutis Mosakas
9 The Black Box Problem
Vladislav V. Fomin and Paulius Astromskis
10 Singularity and Control
Vladislav V. Fomin and Kęstutis Mosakas
Part 3 Major Key Issues: Rights, Status, and Responsibility
Introduction to Part 3
11 Electronic Personhood
Julija Kiršienė, Edita Gruodytė and Darius Amilevičius
12 Moral and Legal Status of Robots
John-Stewart Gordon and Kęstutis Mosakas
13 Rights for Robots
Kęstutis Mosakas
14
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and Moral and Legal Responsibility
Julija Kiršienė, Edita Gruodytė and Kęstutis Mosakas
15 Ethical and Legal Issues Related to Autonomous Vehicles
Sven Nyholm
Part 4 Major Key Issues: Regulation and Standardization
Introduction to Part 4
16 Legal Regulation of Autonomous Machines
Paulius Astromskis
17 Limits of Legal Automation
Darius Amilevičius
19 The Right to Education
Aušrinė Pasvenskienė and Paulius Astromskis
20 Educational Technologies
Aušrinė Pasvenskienė and Paulius Astromskis
Part 6 Appendices
Appendix 1 Guidelines for Regulation of Information Technologies
Vladislav V. Fomin and Darius Amilevičius
Appendix 2 Guidelines for Regulation of Robotics
John-Stewart Gordon and Kęstutis Mosakas
Appendix 3 Guidelines for Improvement of Lawyers’ Qualifications
Julija Kiršienė, Edita Gruodytė, Aušrinė Pasvenskienė and Paulius Astromskis
Index
This book will be of interest for undergraduate and graduate students, especially in law (but also in philosophy/ethics, computer sciences, AI, and robotics, informatics), as well as legal practitoners and policy makers.