Searching for Common Ground: Conceptualizing Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Artificial Intelligence is all around us. Many legal scholars have taken up to the challenges posed by AI technology and its interaction with our laws and regulations. In addressing the legal issues, one area seems to be less developed than others – the concept of AI and how the development of the AI term might affect the legal debate. In this paper, I outline significant milestones in the development of the AI term looking for answers and reasons for the path that was laid out for us in the early 1940s and 1950s by Alan Turing and others. I further argue for rethinking the AI concept for the legal debate offering some conceptual changes that would befit our technological advancements and social change.

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Intellectual Property