17th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2019)

June 17-21, 2019 (Montreal, Canada)
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International Association for Artificial Intelligence and Law (IAAIL)

Artificial Intelligence as Law

Presidential address, June 19, 2019

Information technology is so ubiquitous and AI's progress so inspiring that also legal professionals experience its benefits and have high expectations. At the same time, the powers of AI have been rising strongly to the extent that it is no longer obvious that AI applications (whether in the law or elsewhere) help promoting a good society; in fact they are sometimes harmful. Hence many argue that safeguards are needed for AI to be trustworthy, social, responsible, humane, ethical. In short: AI should be good for us. But how to establish proper safeguards for AI? One strong answer readily available is: consider the problems and solutions studied in AI & Law, since AI & Law has worked on the design of social, explainable, responsible AI aligned with human values for decades already. It is argued that the study of AI as law supports the development of an AI that is good for us, making AI & Law more relevant than ever.

Journal article (2020 Artificial Intelligence and Law journal; here the text and slides as delivered at ICAIL 2019)

Reference
Verheij, B. (2020). Artificial intelligence as law. Presidential address to the seventeenth international conference on artificial intelligence and law. Artificial Intelligence and Law 28 (2), 181-206. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10506-020-09266-0.

www.ai.rug.nl/~verheij