Cognitive Incompatibilities Between Law and Robotic Legal-decision Making
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Cognitive Incompatibilities Between Law and Robotic Legal-decision Making. / Van Rompaey, Léonard.
Envisioning Robots In Society - Power, Politics, And Public Space: Proceedings of Robophilosophy 2018 / TRANSOR 2018. Vol. 311 Amsterdam : IOS Press, 2018. p. 112--121 (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Cognitive Incompatibilities Between Law and Robotic Legal-decision Making
AU - Van Rompaey, Léonard
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This article examines the compatibility of law and robotics by comparing robotic and human legal-decision making. In a scenario where a robot and a person make exactly the same legal decision, with the same factual consequences, there would still be an important difference between the robotic and human decision-making processes. People will be able to relate to the human decision-maker, and this capacity shapes the judgement we have over the fairness of the decision and its outcome. Concurrently, we are not able to relate to the robot in the same scenario, and to reproduce the conditions of relatability in the robot is unforeseeable with the current development of cognitive sciences. Our capacity to judge the fairness or unfairness of the actions of others shapes our acceptance of and faith in the legal system. Robots making legal decisions would not recreate the same conditions of trust in the fairness of the legal-system, which is one source of incompatibilities between law and robotics.
AB - This article examines the compatibility of law and robotics by comparing robotic and human legal-decision making. In a scenario where a robot and a person make exactly the same legal decision, with the same factual consequences, there would still be an important difference between the robotic and human decision-making processes. People will be able to relate to the human decision-maker, and this capacity shapes the judgement we have over the fairness of the decision and its outcome. Concurrently, we are not able to relate to the robot in the same scenario, and to reproduce the conditions of relatability in the robot is unforeseeable with the current development of cognitive sciences. Our capacity to judge the fairness or unfairness of the actions of others shapes our acceptance of and faith in the legal system. Robots making legal decisions would not recreate the same conditions of trust in the fairness of the legal-system, which is one source of incompatibilities between law and robotics.
KW - Faculty of Law
KW - Robot law
KW - legal decision-making
KW - theory of law
UR - http://ebooks.iospress.nl/volume/envisioning-robots-in-society-power-politics-and-public-space-proceedings-of-robophilosophy-2018-transor-2018
U2 - 10.3233/978-1-61499-931-7-112
DO - 10.3233/978-1-61499-931-7-112
M3 - Article in proceedings
SN - 978-1-61499-930-0
VL - 311
T3 - Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications
SP - 112
EP - 121
BT - Envisioning Robots In Society - Power, Politics, And Public Space
PB - IOS Press
CY - Amsterdam
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