Schnake publishes thesis on Artificial Intelligence and Liability

Congratulations to Valeria Schnake for publishing her thesis as part of graduating from the University of Chile School of Law. Schnake was a founding member of the Society Ethics Technology working group, as supported by Orthogonal Research and Education Lab. Schnake first collaborated on “Ethics and Bias in AI: Bridging the Gap via Interdisciplinary Collaboration” which was presented at the New York Celebration of Women in Computing 2019. Four years later, she spoke on Law & AI: Privacy Rights as part of the “Key Concepts in Tech Careers (and Tech Ethics) in 2023 — AI-Generated Content, Open Source + Open Data, and Beyond” talk at NYCWiC 2023. Schnake would become a distinguished law student at the University of Chile, writing her dissertation on the topics of liability and artificial intelligence.

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Inteligencia artificial y responsabilidad extracontractual: desafíos frente a la normativa chilena actual

Author: Schnake Muñoz, Valeria

Professor Advisor: Bustos Díaz, María Magdalena

Abstract

La presente memoria de prueba presenta y analiza los desafíos que surgen a partir de los avances actuales que involucran sistemas de inteligencia artificial, particularmente respecto de la responsabilidad extracontractual en el orden jurídico chileno. Para ello, se analiza (i) qué son la inteligencia artificial y los sistemas de inteligencia artificial, (ii) cuáles son las dificultades que presentan dichos sistemas en general, en comparación con el resto de las tecnologías de la información y (iii) cómo dichos sistemas pueden presentar desafíos novedosos a la responsabilidad civil, a través de un análisis pormenorizado de la incidencia de dichos desafíos en los distintos elementos de la responsabilidad extracontractual.

This thesis presents and analyzes the challenges arising from current developments involving artificial intelligence systems, particularly with respect to tort liability in the Chilean legal system. To this end, it analyzes (i) what are artificial intelligence and artificial intelligence systems, (ii) what are the difficulties presented by such systems in general, in comparison with the rest of the information technologies and (iii) how such systems may present novel challenges to civil liability, through a detailed analysis of the impact of such challenges on the different elements of tort liability.