Executive summary
A decision to adopt AI can raise fundamental and moral issues for society. These are complex and vital issues that are not typically the domain of lawyers.
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A decision to adopt AI can raise fundamental and moral issues for society. These are complex and vital issues that are not typically the domain of lawyers.
AI is a field of computer science that includes machine learning, natural language processing, speech processing, expert systems, robotics, and machine vision.
AI will need to meet certain minimum ethical standards to achieve sufficient end user uptake, varying according to the type of AI and sector of deployment.
Courts in a number of countries have already had to address a range of legal questions in relation to the automatic nature of machines and systems.
The key question businesses need to consider is whether deploying AI will result in a shift of ethical and legal responsibility within their supply chain