Artificial Intelligence Technology as a Complex Object of Intellectual Rights

Abstract

The paper aims to identify the legal essence of artificial intelligence technologies. The research relevance is confirmed by its compliance with the goals of national strategies for the development of artificial intelligence adopted by more than 30 countries. The development of the regulatory framework outlined in the strategies is impossible without determining the legal essence of artificial intelligence. During the research, the authors applied the comparative legal method, the method of classification, and systematization. The authors summarized the opinions of foreign and Russian lawyers and identified four main scientific approaches. Using their scientific and critical analysis, the authors formulated the provisions, which, in turn, became the theoretical basis of this research. The authors prove that the recognition of artificial intelligence as an object of law follows from the system of its features and requirements developed by the world community during the formation of a regulatory framework for “end-to-end technologies.” Artificial intelligence is a product of human intellectual activity; it meets the conditions of intellectual property protection. The authors conclude that this technology has signs of complex objects of intellectual rights. The research substantiates the need to abandon the development of ethical rules of interaction between humans and artificial intelligence and revise the one-sided utilitarian approach to the development of artificial intelligence. The authors provide suggestions on ways to consolidate the status of artificial intelligence in legislation.