The Challenges of Criminal Responsibility for the Crimes of Artificial Intelligence Systems in the Modern World

Abstract

Artificial intelligence has now firmly entered the lives of people around the world - in smartphones, air traffic control systems, driverless cars, personal robots, smart home systems, etc. And the world is changing even faster as people, devices, and information become more interconnected. At the same time, the growing dependence of people on machines, at the same time increases the fear of them.

There is no doubt that the freedom of robots can lead to some harmful forms of behavior, even if they have good intentions. A proper understanding of artificial intelligence is crucial to considering how it should be regulated within existing legal systems. That is why artificial intelligence systems are constantly evolving, and the issue of proper response of criminal legislation is becoming more and more relevant all over the world. Today, an unmanned vehicle is increasingly becoming the cause of a car accident, robots make mistakes during surgical intervention, and special programs commit fraud. Soon after robots become completely independent in decision-making, they can start committing crimes completely without human help.

The crimes committed by AI give rise to a reasonable question: who should be held accountable for these and other offenses: the manufacturer, the programmer, the user or the object of artificial intelligence itself? In addition, there are certain difficulties in the process of considering the composition of crimes committed by AI. Thus, the article deals with the main problems of regulating criminal liability for crimes of artificial intelligence systems in the modern world, namely, difficulties are identified in defining the concept of artificial intelligence, establishing the legal personality and delictworthiness of AI, considering crimes committed by AI in terms of elements and signs of the corpus delicti in accordance with the current Russian and foreign criminal legislation.