Artificial Intelligence And Product Liability: Catching Up With The Future

Connected and smart devices – everyday devices fitted with microchips, sensors and wireless communication capabilities – are increasingly connecting people and objects to one another in ever-increasing ways. What has come to be described as the Internet of Things (IoT) has initiated a new digital revolution, where connected and smart products promise to make our lives easier and more efficient – or, at least, smarter.

With the addition of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), products we use on a daily basis have the ability to make decisions on their own in increasingly complex situations. This, of course, is the benefit of AI.

In cases where the product or its AI technology, makes decisions and learns from those decisions in order to make further ones, how do we analyze and assign legal liability when things go wrong?