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Degrees Of Confidence As A Legal Tool To Assess Ai System Liability, Joshua Song
Degrees Of Confidence As A Legal Tool To Assess Ai System Liability, Joshua Song
Michigan Technology Law Review
AI systems have become increasingly integrated into our everyday lives, and harms caused by these systems have graduated from raising hypothetical ethical concerns to questions of actual legal liability. Civil liability schemes are generally designed to address harms caused by humans; thus, it may be tempting to analogize new types of harms caused by AI systems to familiar harms caused by humans in order to justify commandeering existing human-centered legal tools to assess AI liability. However, the analogy is inappropriate and misrepresents salient legal differences in how harms are committed by humans and AI systems. Thus, “as is often the …