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Main Authors: Constant, Axel, Westermann, Hannes, Wilson, Bryan, Kiefer, Alex, Hipolito, Ines, Pronovost, Sylvain, Swanson, Steven, Albarracin, Mahault, Ramstead, Maxwell J. D.
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18537
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author Constant, Axel
Westermann, Hannes
Wilson, Bryan
Kiefer, Alex
Hipolito, Ines
Pronovost, Sylvain
Swanson, Steven
Albarracin, Mahault
Ramstead, Maxwell J. D.
author_facet Constant, Axel
Westermann, Hannes
Wilson, Bryan
Kiefer, Alex
Hipolito, Ines
Pronovost, Sylvain
Swanson, Steven
Albarracin, Mahault
Ramstead, Maxwell J. D.
contents Legal autonomy - the lawful activity of artificial intelligence agents - can be achieved in one of two ways. It can be achieved either by imposing constraints on AI actors such as developers, deployers and users, and on AI resources such as data, or by imposing constraints on the range and scope of the impact that AI agents can have on the environment. The latter approach involves encoding extant rules concerning AI driven devices into the software of AI agents controlling those devices (e.g., encoding rules about limitations on zones of operations into the agent software of an autonomous drone device). This is a challenge since the effectivity of such an approach requires a method of extracting, loading, transforming and computing legal information that would be both explainable and legally interoperable, and that would enable AI agents to reason about the law. In this paper, we sketch a proof of principle for such a method using large language models (LLMs), expert legal systems known as legal decision paths, and Bayesian networks. We then show how the proposed method could be applied to extant regulation in matters of autonomous cars, such as the California Vehicle Code.
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spellingShingle A Path Towards Legal Autonomy: An interoperable and explainable approach to extracting, transforming, loading and computing legal information using large language models, expert systems and Bayesian networks
Constant, Axel
Westermann, Hannes
Wilson, Bryan
Kiefer, Alex
Hipolito, Ines
Pronovost, Sylvain
Swanson, Steven
Albarracin, Mahault
Ramstead, Maxwell J. D.
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Computers and Society
Logic in Computer Science
Legal autonomy - the lawful activity of artificial intelligence agents - can be achieved in one of two ways. It can be achieved either by imposing constraints on AI actors such as developers, deployers and users, and on AI resources such as data, or by imposing constraints on the range and scope of the impact that AI agents can have on the environment. The latter approach involves encoding extant rules concerning AI driven devices into the software of AI agents controlling those devices (e.g., encoding rules about limitations on zones of operations into the agent software of an autonomous drone device). This is a challenge since the effectivity of such an approach requires a method of extracting, loading, transforming and computing legal information that would be both explainable and legally interoperable, and that would enable AI agents to reason about the law. In this paper, we sketch a proof of principle for such a method using large language models (LLMs), expert legal systems known as legal decision paths, and Bayesian networks. We then show how the proposed method could be applied to extant regulation in matters of autonomous cars, such as the California Vehicle Code.
title A Path Towards Legal Autonomy: An interoperable and explainable approach to extracting, transforming, loading and computing legal information using large language models, expert systems and Bayesian networks
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Computers and Society
Logic in Computer Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.18537