Artificial Intelligence: Measuring the Sufficiency of International Laws
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.55184/dmejl.v1i01.50Keywords:
Artificial Intelligence, Automation, Duplication, Technological, MankindAbstract
The curiosity in humans have led to great discoveries and developments, Artificial Intelligence is one of them. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a technological development where the study of computations is designed in the best possible way to perceive the situation, apply reason and act accordingly or in simpler terms “the automation of intelligent behavior”. The researcher in this paper will focus on the critical analysis of the automation developments, as with the new development we are posed to new threats too, which requires new laws to regulate the same. The developments in AI are expected to bring economic and social benefits to the mankind and the ultimate benefits can be determined by finally measuring the threats posed against its use and comparing it with the beneficial outcomes. As with the advancement in automation we accept the immediate risks and challenges to the existing cyber security threats and the vulnerabilities into the AI dependent systems. Moreover, whether the AI will ever be able to achieve cognition and decision-making abilities as what humans hold today? Whether the continuous strive to achieve ease in life will lead to artificial general intelligence or super intelligence that will ultimately surpasses human intelligence? The researcher will focus on the cyber security threats and human right violations due to the advancement in the technology. The efforts towards AI will push us through a transition which will lead to proliferation of new rules, values, norms, standards, laws and declarations making huge changes in the Public as well as Private International Laws. Whether the existing national and international laws are sufficient or the legislators need to come up with a different set of law regulating the new set of crimes which will always be dynamic?
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