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1st Edition

Artificial Intelligence, Humans and the Law

Edited By Henrik Palmer Olsen, Jacob Livingston Slosser, Salome Addo Ravn, Johan Eddebo, Jonas Hultin Rosenberg Copyright 2026
322 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

322 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book takes up the contentious issue of artificial intelligence (AI), and more specifically the evolving nature of AI-mindedness, as a legal entity in society. With the increasing potential of AI suggested by the recent surge in creative and administrative tools and large language models, there is a growing concern about the ethical and legal implications of incorporating AI into society. As... Read more

PART I

AI Agents in Law’s Empire: An Introduction to Law and the AI–Human Relationship

Jacob Livingston Slosser, Henrik Palmer Olsen, and Salome Addo Ravn

1 Large Language Models and Linguistic Understanding

Thor Grünbaum and Anders Søgaard

2 The Myth of Artificial Creative Agency

Johan Eddebo

3 The Human Free Will Debate, Autonomous Artificial Systems, and Artificial Suffering

Oliver Li

PART II

4 Children as the Others of Technology Regulation

Susanna Lindroos-Hovinheimo

5 Engaging with Non-Minds and Hybrid Others Philosophical Perspectives on AI and Automated Decision-Making

Sille Obelitz Søe and Rikke Frank Jørgensen

6 “I’m Sorry to Hear That You Are Feeling Bad”: The Artificiality and Otherness of Chatbot Interaction in Digital Public Administration

Riikka Koulu and Ida Koivisto

PART III

7 Two Routes to Legal Personhood for AI Entities

Lars Karlander

8 Legal Personhood for AI Systems?

Léonard Van Rompaey and Henrik Palmer Olsen

9 Merging with AI: Subtle Consequences and Dubious Agency

Yulia Razmetaeva

PART IV

10 Legal Personality for AI Systems and Robots from a Belgian Civil (Extra-Contractual) Liability Perspective: Some Food for (Interdisciplinary) Debate

V. Schollaert and J. De Bruyne

11 Criminal Justice, Artificial Intelligence, and Parity in Sentencing

Jesper Ryberg

12 Rule-Based AI as Transparent, Accountable and Adaptable Computational Interpretations of Law

Thomas T. Hildebrandt

PART V

13 If Humans and AI Disagree: A Political Approach to Existential Risk

Hans Agné

14 The Democratic Agency of AI

Jonas Hultin Rosenberg

15 The Rule of Law after the Anthropocene

Vincent Chiao

Biography

Henrik Palmer Olsen, Professor, Dr. Jur., Centre of Excellence for International Courts (iCourts), Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

Jacob Livingston Slosser, Assistant Professor at the Centre for Comparative and European Constitutional Studies, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen; Director of Research, Sapien Institute.

Salome Addo Ravn, Postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Private Governance, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen.

Johan Eddebo, Associate Professor at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society, Uppsala University; Visiting Researcher at Centre for Glocal Studies, Seijo University (成城大学).

Jonas Hultin Rosenberg, Associate Professor in Political Science at Mälardalen University and visiting researcher at the Centre for Multidisciplinary Research on Religion and Society at Uppsala University.

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