Artificial Intelligence and international law: from recommendations to conventional regulation

Artificial intelligence (AI) is one of the most relevant objects of scientific research. The purpose of the article is to cover the evolution of rule-making activities of international organizations on AI issues and determine the prospects for using soft law and hard law acts to externally consolidate the results achieved as a summary of its results. Using historical and logical methods, the history of the emergence of AI was investigated. Based on the methods of analysis and synthesis, the results of rule-making activities on AI issues carried out by the OECD, UNESCO, EU and CE were studied. The use of comparative and hermeneutic methods contributed to the study of the structure and content of soft law and hard law acts developed by international organizations in this area, etc. It is found out that the implementation of rule-making activities in the field of AI by international organizations has contributed to the expansion of the subject of legal regulation of international law at the expense of international relations on AI issues. The soft law and hard law acts analyzed in the article may in the future receive the status of global standards for regulating relations in the field of AI and, complementing each other, form the primary basis of a new field of international law called “International AI Law”.