AI In Court: Friend Or Foe?

From autonomous vehicles, to ChatGPT, to creating a painting in the style of Monet or composing a new Beatles song, artificial intelligence can seemingly do everything.

But what happens when AI goes wrong? Let's say a smart chess robot breaks your finger during a game of chess?¹ Who is responsible and liable? To meet the challenges of the future, the EU is planning to introduce a new Directive on Product Liability (Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on liability for defective products COM(2022) 495 final) and an AI Liability Directive (Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on adapting non-contractual civil liability rules to artificial intelligence COM(2022) 496 final) in addition to the AI Act.²