Book

Criminal Liability of Artificial Intelligence

(Trestní odpovědnost umělé inteligence)

A new legal monograph by Jakub Charvát examining questions of criminal liability in the context of contemporary AI development. Available from Wolters Kluwer.

Language: Czech.

About the Book

Artificial intelligence is becoming an inseparable part of everyday life in our society — over the past few years it has touched virtually every sphere of human activity to a greater or lesser degree. Yet with this growing integration come mounting risks that AI already poses — or will soon pose — to society, individuals, and other relationships, interests, and values we hold.

AI and the tools and devices that use it can not only substantially facilitate, or even enable, the commission of various criminal acts of differing complexity, but can cause criminally relevant harm by their own operation. Resolving the question of who bears criminal liability for — and potentially of — artificial intelligence is therefore more urgent than ever.

Jakub Charvát situates the current state of international scholarship on AI criminal liability within the framework of Czech criminal law as it stands, against the backdrop of current development trends and forward-looking predictions. The alternative — halting further progress — is neither desirable nor practically feasible.

The opening chapters address both the technology of artificial intelligence and the applicable Czech legal framework. This is followed by a synthesis of existing domestic and international knowledge, upon which the author builds a combination of criminal liability models — drawn from the liability of natural and legal persons — that could be applied within the bounds of current law, thereby capturing as broad a spectrum as possible of AI-related criminal conduct during the era of global AI adoption. One of the closing chapters examines, in light of current trends and predictions, the limits of the proposed combination — for example in the context of AI-enabled fraud and autonomous vehicles and agents. An appendix addresses the impact of the EU AI Act.

The monograph is suited to a broad expert readership: lawyers, judges, prosecutors, police officers, in-house counsel, and law students — not only from a legal perspective, but a technological one as well.

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