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¹û¶³Ó°Ôº is the recipient of a Leverhulme Research Project Grant worth up to £294,694 over 36 months for "Liability for Autonomous Decision Systems". The Co-Investigators of the project are Professor Carsten Gerner-Beuerle (Professor of Commercial Law and Vice-Dean (Research) at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Laws) and Professor Miguel Rodrigues (Professor of Information Theory and Processing at ¹û¶³Ó°Ôº Electronic and Electrical Engineering).

The prestigious grant has been awarded by the to investigate when decisions and predictions made by machine learning systems that result in end-user harm give rise to liability. The project will address questions involving law and technology that lie at the heart of the current debate about developing a civil liability regime for artificial intelligence, including when a machine learning system can be qualified as defective in the legal sense, how it can be established whether a prediction that entails end-user harm derives from defective data production, system production, or system operation, and what amounts to negligence in the development and operation of a machine learning system.