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How Artificial Intelligence will impact your business risk

How Artificial Intelligence will impact your business risk

But the increased adoption of raises some critical business and legal questions, including how we assess business risk and liability. After all, what happens when is involved in an accident or causes damage? Who should be responsible, or how should responsibility shared, among the following parties: the business, the manufacturer, the retailer, the software developer, the consumer or the person controlling it, the different data providers, or someone else (such as the system itself)?

One of the challenges of assessing business liability and risk when fails is that courts assess liability and damages based on prior legal precedent. This means that -based systems will inextricably be judged by applying legal concepts and assumptions based on human involvement and outdated caselaw. For example, common law claims of negligence involve traditional human concepts of fault, negligence, knowledge, causation and reasonableness and foreseeability. So what are some issues when human judgment is replaced with an program?

The second challenge is that the appropriate standard of ‘reasonable foreseeability’ will become even harder for humans to judge due to the nature of . In the past, ‘reasonable foreseeability’ was judged according to the objective nature of the ‘reasonable (human) person’. However, the increasing use of promises to change this standard to what a company in the same industry with similar experience, expertise and technology would reasonably foresee. This raises two problems. Firstly, relies heavily on the breadth and size of big data sets too large for humans to process, which means it will be difficult for humans to judge what is ‘reasonably foreseeable’ for a given piece of software. Secondly, predictions depend entirely on the type of data it receives. This means that, unless two companies obtain the exact same software and feed it exactly the same data, even competitors with the same technology and markets may receive and be acting on wildly different information.

The first challenge is that one of the key benefits of lies in : the ability of certain software to analyse vast quantities of data and make predictions based on that data. However, the sheer scale of data sets that can process compared to humans means that arguably far more things are now ‘reasonably foreseeable’ to the growing number of companies that use to make strategic decisions. This means, potentially, that there is now a dramatic increase in the scope of what a company may be liable for. […]

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