Definition of artificial intelligence in the context of the Russian legal system: a critical approach

Occupation: Head of the Department of theory and history of state and law
Affiliation: St. Petersburg State University
Address: Saint Petersburg, Russia

Anastasia Gracheva

Occupation: lecturer at the Department of theory and history of state and law
Affiliation: St. Petersburg State University
Address: Russia

Viktor B. Naumov

Occupation: chief researcher of the Information Law and international information security sector of the Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences; chief researcher of the Laboratory of applied informatics and problems of society informatization o
Affiliation:
Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
St. Petersburg state University
Dentons Law Firm
Address: Russian Federation, St. Petersburg

Tatiana A. Polyakova

Occupation: Chief Research Fellow, Acting Head of the Information Law and International Information Security sector, Institute of State and Law
Affiliation: Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: Russian Federation, Moscow

Aleksey V. Minbaleev

Occupation: Head of the Department of Information Law and digital technologies
Affiliation:
Kutafin Moscow state Law University (MSAL)
The Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Address: Russian Federation

Journal name

Gosudarstvo i pravo

Edition

Issue 1

Pages

168-178

Abstract

The article addresses the normative definition of artificial intelligence as provided in the Russian legislation by 2021 in the context of general approach to this term. Authors identify principal legally significant features of artificial intelligence that include autonomy of functioning (complete or relative), the ability to find solutions (including without predetermined algorithms) and “inorganic” nature that imply – strictly from formal legal, and not factual, perspective – potential risk and, subsequently, potential danger of artificial intelligence to be understood in formalized legal sense. The authors take into consideration examples of approaches to defining the term in the world, raise criticism of the existing definition and suggest more concise approach based on defining artificial intelligence as an information system (in formal legal sense) which provides the function of forming algorithms for solving problems different from those laid down by the system developers, including artificial neural network

Keywords

law, artificial intelligence, definition, neural network

Acknowledgment

The article was prepared within the framework of the thematic research plan of the Institute of Digital Environment Law, National Research University “Higher School of Economics”.

Received

15.11.2021

Publication date

17.03.2022

Number of characters

41158

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GOST	Arkhipov V., Gracheva A., Naumov V., Polyakova T., Minbaleev A. Definition of artificial intelligence in the context of the Russian legal system: a critical approach // Gosudarstvo i pravo – 2022. – Issue 1 C. 168-178 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://gospravo-journal.ru/S102694520018288-7-1 (circulation date: 04.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S102694520018288-7
MLA	Arkhipov, Vladislav, Gracheva, Anastasia, Naumov, Viktor B, Polyakova, Tatiana A, Minbaleev, Aleksey V "Definition of artificial intelligence in the context of the Russian legal system: a critical approach." Gosudarstvo i pravo 1 (2022):168-178. DOI: 10.31857/S102694520018288-7
APA	Arkhipov V., Gracheva A., Naumov V., Polyakova T., Minbaleev A. (2022). Definition of artificial intelligence in the context of the Russian legal system: a critical approach. Gosudarstvo i pravo (1), pp.168-178 DOI: 10.31857/S102694520018288-7

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