Legal Personality of Artificial Intelligence

Introduction. There is no consensus in Russian and foreign legal doctrine regarding the legal personality of artificial intelligence. Purpose. The author's aim is to analyze the currently existing theoretical and practical problems arising in connection with the development of the category of “subject of law” in the context of the emergence of artificial intelligence, to develop recommendations for their solution. Methodology. The methodological basis of the study includes general principles of scientific knowledge (comprehensiveness, systematicity, objectivity), general philosophical method (dialectical), general scientific methods of cognition (comparison, ascent from the abstract to the particular), general logical methods (analysis, synthesis, induction, deduction, generalization, classification, abstraction), and special legal methods (formal legal, method of interpreting legal norms, dogmatic). Results. The article considers various aspects of the subjectivity of artificial intelligence, including the admissibility and expediency of recognizing a carrier of artificial intelligence as a subject of legal relations. Conclusion. It is necessary to develop a unified, well-founded approach to the legal personality of artificial intelligence, while maintaining a balance of interests of the economy and society in the context of the development and implementation of artificial intelligence.