Toward a Conceptual Network for the Private Law of Artificial Intelligence

Paweł Księżak, PhD and dr. hab., Associate Professor at the Civil Law Department at the University of Lodz, Poland; a solicitor for many years, at the present time the judge of the Supreme Court in Poland. His main research interests are, among others, personal goods, unjust enrichment, liability for damage and inheritance law. He published four scientific monographs and dozens of scientific papers on civil law. He co-authored two commentaries on the Polish civil code. He is the principal investigator in the research project concerning civil law of robotics and AI, financed by the National Science Centre, Poland.Sylwia Wojtczak is a lawyer, legal philosopher and legal theorist; PhD and dr hab., full professor, works at the University of Lodz, Poland. Her main research interests are legal axiology and the problem of legal cognition and reasoning. She is co-author and author of scientific papers and books, among others “The Metaphorical Engine of Legal Reasoning and Legal Interpretation” (C.H. Beck, Warszawa 2017). She was the principal investigator in the research project on the application of the cognitive theory of conceptual metaphor for analysing the legal language. Now she is the investigator in the research project concerning civil law of robotics and AI, financed by the National Science Centre, Poland.

• Introduction – is a new conceptual network necessary to adapt the civil (private) law to the development of AI and robotics development?.- Artificial Intelligence and legal subjectivity.- Will and Discernment.- Capacity for juridical acts.- Consent.- Personal interests of AI.- Copyright.- Property.- Contract.- Abuse of right.- Liability of AI.- Conclusions.