Crimes without criminals : in search of criminal liability for harms caused by AI systems
dc.contributor.author | NERANTZI, Eleni | |
dc.contributor.author | SARTOR, Giovanni | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2025-07-04T15:11:48Z | |
dc.date.available | 2025-07-04T15:11:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
dc.description | Published online: 19 June 2025 | |
dc.description.abstract | As Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems expand in autonomy, learning abilities, and capacity for intentional action, so does the risk of them engaging in harmful activities for which no human possesses the corresponding mens rea, i.e., actions that no human has planned or was even able to foresee (‘hard AI crime’). How should the legal system respond to this gap in criminal liability? In this chapter, we make a threefold contribution: First, we define this gap by offering a taxonomy of AI-generated harms into ‘easy’, ‘medium’ and ‘hard’ cases, arguing that only the last ones give rise to a ‘culpability gap’. Second, we classify and critically engage with the literature responses on the ‘who is to blame’ question for this harm. Finally, we introduce our own novel approach to the ‘hard AI crime’ problem, which shifts the discussion from blame to deterrence and seeks to design an ‘AI deterrence paradigm’ inspired by the Criminal Law and Economics. | |
dc.identifier.citation | Woodrow BARFIELD and Ugo PAGALLO (eds), Research handbook on the law of artificial intelligence : current and future directions (2nd edition), Cheltenham ; Northampton : Edward Elgar Publishing, 2025, pp. 329-348 | |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.4337/9781035316496.00024 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781035316489 | |
dc.identifier.isbn | 9781035316496 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/92976 | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.orcid.putcode | 1814/80363:187297254 | |
dc.orcid.putcode | 1814/80928:187297257 | |
dc.publisher | Edward Elgar Publishing | |
dc.subject | Criminal law | |
dc.subject | Criminal law and economics | |
dc.subject | Deterrence | |
dc.subject | Hard case | |
dc.subject | Harm | |
dc.title | Crimes without criminals : in search of criminal liability for harms caused by AI systems | |
dc.type | Contribution to book | |
dspace.entity.type | Publication | |
person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0001-8990-8514 | |
person.identifier.orcid | 0000-0003-2210-0398 | |
person.identifier.other | 46620 | |
person.identifier.other | 29040 | |
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