AM Waltermann, Acts and Responsibility of AI

Responsibility and AI

Antonia Waltermann, Acts and Responsibility of AI

This lecture considers the relevance of the cognitive sciences for law when it comes to acts and responsibility (or liability) of artificially intelligent agents. It addresses whether we (1) can, and (2) should hold AI liable.

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Acts and responsibility of AI (1)

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Which of the following statements accurately reflects (part of) the restrictivist argument?

Only entities with certain metaphysical characteristics can be legally responsible.

Only entities with certain physical characteristics can be legally responsible.

Only entities with certain phenomenological characteristics can be legally responsible.

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On what spectrum can views regarding the possibility of legal agency of AI be situated?

Restrictivist/progressive

Permissivist/progressive

Restrictivist/permissivist

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What reasons does the lecture identify for investigating the possibility of holding AI liable?

There are potential liability gaps, also due to increasing autonomy.

There are potential liability gaps, mainly due to changes in public perception of AI.

There are potential liability gaps, because AI cannot conclude contracts.

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Acts and responsibility of AI (2)

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What role can insights from the cognitive sciences play in relation to the restrictivist argument?

They demonstrate the truth of the restrictivist's presuppositions.

They call into question the truth of the restrictivist's presuppositions.

They have no relevance for the truth of the restrictivist's presuppositions.

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The restrictivist argument against agency and responsibility of AI rests on certain metaphysical presuppositions. Which of the following statements accurately captures (part of) the restrictivist argument?

Only human beings are real agents because only human beings have intentionality.

There is no such thing as metaphysically real agency; all agency is attributed.

Legal agency and moral agency are distinct categories that do not relate to one another.

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(At least) which three forms of agency and responsibility can we distinguish?

Moral, legal, physical

Moral, legal, phenomenological

Phenomenological, legal, physical

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Responsibility and AI

Antonia Waltermann, Acts and Responsibility of AI

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