Delphi - Interdisciplinary Review of Emerging Technologies

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Celine Melanie A. Dee

Delphi - Interdisciplinary Review of Emerging Technologies, Volume 1 (2018), Issue 1, Page 31 - 37

Through time, the world has witnessed the evolution of art as painstakingly created by human authors, to art created by human authors with aid of computer technology, and more recently, to art created by artificial intelligence. Although art as an output remains unchanged, its very essence, as embodied in the process of creation, is altered. Advancements by generative artificial intelligence systems in the field of art (‘AI-Generated Art’) has disrupted the way in which art is created thus raising a myriad of questions on its creation, ownership, and protection. While AI-Generated Art has certain similarities with contemporary art thus meriting copyright protection, AI-Generated Art and its underlying system do not exactly fit within the traditional copyright framework. An absence of a protection framework will cause AI-Generated Art to immediately fall into the public domain, and its use may place it in a state of perpetual infringement. Failing to extend adequate protection to AI-Generated Art is a disservice to creativity and innovation and a blatant disregard of what is beautiful, appealing, or provocative as manifested in AI-Generated Art.

Takashi Izumo

Delphi - Interdisciplinary Review of Emerging Technologies, Volume 1 (2018), Issue 1, Page 14 - 19

Modern technology calls for the judicial integration of robots into our society as well as their functional integration. Some scholars and industrialists argue that robots might possess their own property and should pay tax; however, it seems premature to grant an electronic personhood to robots at their current technological level. Therefore, another legal institution is needed. With this in mind Pagallo suggests that the concept of ‘specific property’ (peculium), which was given to Roman slaves, could be applied to highly developed robots. He calls it digital peculium (DP). In this paper, I explain what peculium was in Roman law and compare it with some future regulations for an autonomous taxicab to clarify the similarity and differences between the Roman peculium and DP. Two merits of the introduction of DP are found in my study. First, a robot may have its own DP although it has no personhood. Second, substantive regulations, which were applied to Roman slaves for supporting their masters and creditors, may be reused without destroying the current legal system. In conclusion, it becomes clear that DP is useful as a chrysalis legal institution for supervising robots before they become autonomous in the truest sense of the word.

Armin Grunwald

Delphi - Interdisciplinary Review of Emerging Technologies, Volume 1 (2018), Issue 1, Page 8 - 13

Self-driving cars have become a challenging and discussed mobility option in Western societies in recent years. Technology is advancing quickly while simultaneously posing many ethical, legal, and social questions to the reflective scientific disciplines and to society as a whole. This paper focuses on the risk constellation of self-driving cars and draws some conclusions of their social acceptance. The final thesis is that an overly hasty introduction of self-driving cars motivated by economic competition might not only increase risk to road users but may also undermine the social acceptance of this technology. Hence, an ethical and legally responsible introduction should happen step by step in order to allow problems to be resolved as they emerge. Interdisciplinary cooperation between engineering, information technology, legal science, ethics, and the social sciences is needed to develop sound solutions to the many challenges of coping with risks and ethical issues of automated driving in a pro-active manner.

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