The Cheshire cat, or a few words about the concept of legal personality of artificial intelligence

• Author: Gabriela Bar
• Pages: 426-439

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The Cheshire cat, or a few words

about the concept of legal personality

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Gabriela Bar1

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I. ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE: SCIENCE-FICTION OR

THE NEAR FUTURE?

The open question remains whether it is possible to create an Artificial

Intelligence (AI) that will be human-like or will exceed human intelligence

(AGI), and if so, when will it be created. Among the scientists involved in AI

research, there are as many sceptics as believers in this “Holy Grail” of AI.

Despite the seemingly speculative nature of the AGI, research and

development work towards its creation is already underway 2. In his new

book, “Architects of Intelligence”, writer and futurist Martin Ford interviewed

1 Dr. The author is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the

University of Opole, a legal advisor and managing partner at Szostek_Bar i Partnerzy Kancelaria

Prawnej, a member of the IEEE Global Initiative on Ethics of Autonomous and Intelligent Systems

legal committee and a member of Women in AI.

2 A study by the    identified 45 research and development

projects conducted in 30 countries on 6 continents, many of which are conducted in large corporations

and academic institutions. See: BAUM S. D., “A Survey of Artificial General Intelligence Projects for

Ethics, Risk, and Policy”, Global Catastrophic Risk Institute Working Paper 17-1, 2017, p. 29. Some

consider GPT-3 by OpenAI to be the precursor of AGI. See: THORNHILL J., “Is AI finally closing in