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Research by Dr Paul Burgess on AI and legal personhood cited in speech by Lord Sales

26 November 2019

The speech on AI and the law was delivered by The Right Honourable Lord Sales, Justice of the Supreme Court, at the Sir Henry Brooke Lecture for BAILII on 12th November.

Paul Burgess

A journal article co-authored by聽Dr Paul Burgess聽(Senior Teaching Fellow in Public Law & Human Rights Law at聽果冻影院 Laws), and Dr Jiahong Chen (University of Nottingham) was cited by Lord Sales in a speech entitled 鈥楢lgorithms, Artificial Intelligence and the Law鈥.

The聽paper, entitled聽'',聽 aims to identify the way in which various forms of legal personhood can be differentiated from one another by comparing these entities with a hypothetical situation in which intelligence spontaneously evolves, without human design, within the internet: spontaneous intelligence (鈥淪I鈥).聽

The paper was cited in the speech when Lord Sales discussed how sophisticated AIs could be given legal personhood, while recognising the challenges posed by how diverse the different types of AI are. A transcript of the speech is available to read on the聽.