On the issue of civil liability in the use of artificial intelligence and other digital technologies

The article substantiates the prospects of scientific research, which pursue the attempt of complex characteristics of the sphere of digital technologies, revealing the links between its various structural elements (artificial intelligence, «smart contract», Internet technologies, «cloud» computer services, virtual reality, bio engineering technologies, etc.). The author attempts to substantiate the proposition that determining the balance between the development of these technologies and the inevitable potential danger of diminishing the rights of people are an urgent task of the theory and practice of civil law. It is proved that the model of legal regulation of the process of applying digital technologies cannot be formed without such its element as an institution of legal responsibility; the revitalization of civil turnover with the use of such technologies «constrained by the impossibility of finding consensus regarding the liability of relevant entities is the owner (owner) of the resource, the developer of the program or, perhaps, by a self-learning program? Examples of using the latter option are given in this article.

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