Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and the Law

Module code: CCDM047

Credits: 15.0
Semester: SEM3

Contact: Ms Laura Edgar

While the use of robots creates arguably more efficient, precise and innovative outcomes, it also presents a number of questions with regards to liability, responsibility and legal personhood in criminal law, contractual obligations, and torts. The use of cognitive features allowing robots to interact with their environment inevitably raises issues of data protection and privacy.

The module covers both embodied artificial intelligent systems (robots) and non-embodied ones (intelligent agents). Distinction is also made between the behaviour of robots as tools of human interaction, and robots as independent agents in the legal arena and its legal ramifications.

Connected course(s): UDF DATA
Assessment: 100.0% Coursework
Level: 7