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The article provides a comprehensive analysis of scientific approaches to the formation of legal regulation of relations arising in the development and use of artificial intelligence technologies, their socio-legal status, as well as social, ethical, methodological, and practical legal issues with an emphasis on the fundamentals of natural legal doctrine. The author’s vision of the concept of human interaction and artificial intelligence from the standpoint of legal relations is given. Emphasis is placed on the need to study the problems that arise in this area, within the framework of information law, as a complex branch of law and sociohumanitarian informology—at the level of an interdisciplinary approach. Ways to improve the mechanisms and methods of legal support in the field of artificial intelligence through the development and implementation of technological and legal methods as an innovative tools and effective tools for special technological impact.
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Kostenko, O.M., Bieliakov, K.I., Tykhomyrov, O.O. et al. “Legal personality” of artificial intelligence: methodological problems of scientific reasoning by Ukrainian and EU experts. AI & Soc (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01641-0
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