Criminal responsibility for robots: A thorough and comparative study

Abstract

The tremendous acceleration in manufacturing technology, on one hand, and artificial intelligence programs, on the other, have produced a new organism whose legal frameworks have yet to be defined, robots, the combination of human intelligence, and machine power. It is unclear what this new age will look like in its place in the Criminal Code, even after the European Parliament passed the 2017 European Guidelines for Civil Law. However, the latter has hinted that a new legal person is on the horizon, which may entail legal responsibility, and it goes without saying that the Civil Code is not far from its criminal counterpart, since tort is itself criminal responsibility, if the offending legal text is Criminal nature. Research into the availability of the legal implications of robots is a cornerstone in the possibility of criminal accountability. In the absence of a national or comparative legislative organization for humanity, jurisprudence is called to discuss the limits on which the criminal responsibility of this new entity stands, which may result in the creation of a new type of criminal responsibility that has a special legal nature, commensurate with the privacy it enjoys, provided that it is adopted. The activity of the latter is through its.