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The rapid development of artificial intelligence is increasingly becoming an important factor affecting social life and the legal system. The development of artificial intelligence has taken different category, among which the one with the greatest impact on law and society is the general artificial intelligence represented by NARS, which has sufficient self-learning ability and is exploitable and adaptable to the external world. Such AI agents have the potential to be taken as legal subjects, impacting the framework of the existing legal system. Human subjectivity is legally embodied as legal personality and rights capacity. The most fundamental meaning of legal personality and capacity is indeed the subjectivity of human beings established in modern times, which is rooted in the rational ability of “man to legislate for nature”. NARS, for example, realizes this rational ability to “legislate for nature” in a conceptual sense by means of non-axiomatic logic. Such an artificial intelligence should have the possibility to be taken as a legal subject.
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Shen, J. (2022). Can an Artificial Intelligence System Be Taken as a Legal Subject. In: Qingyang, W., Zhang, LJ. (eds) Services Computing – SCC 2022. SCC 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13738. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-23515-3_2
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