My Dilemma: Why Need NEW AI Acts When Already Have IP/IT Acts?

 

When the new EU AI Act came, and when I hear from Politicians to Bureaucrats speaking about the necessity for the new AI Acts and Rules; are they referring to mere self-regulating AI guidelines, or, explicitly asking for new AI Acts, my dilemma gets lost in the labyrinth of sub- dilemmas, as, do you require so many acts and rules, when already mountain of them are present, covering the specifics even of the functionality of AI?

Further, my dilemma questions, are they referring to how AI should function, or, making AI itself including in a set of legal sections and rules? But then, aren’t there already defined Acts & Rules that already help in the guiding functionality of AI? From Privacy in the Information Acts, to IPR Acts, to Digital Millennium Acts, and so on; why another set of Acts and Rules?

Then, my dilemma found an answer to it. Maybe! What if we invoke DABUS, resurrect its purpose, and include AI under the definition of Natural Person only? As once the AI is defined under the Natural Person, mission accomplished! That natural person, just like other person, would be covered under wherein any other natural person is covered!

Take this example. New Zealand has recently granted the Personhood to a mountain, Mount Taranaki. And yes, it’s a huge deal. I wrote an earlier blog on this in which I discussed, if to nature itself, personhood can be granted; then why not to AI? Why not to Autonomous Machines? Link: https://www.jpranavc.in/2024/11/can-nature-be-granted-personhood.html.

Thus, why not once and for all, grant the rights and personhood, to the AI & to Autonomous Machines in future?

This will revoke the need of these NEEDLESS myriad AI acts and guidelines, as, the AI & Autonomous persons themselves would be covered under the ambit of every law ever defined,  wherein any other Natural Person is covered!

This is what I found inside that labyrinth. Maybe, you’ll find a different EXIT too in the same labyrinth, but might be, your exit door would be no more than a mirage!

Think about it. 😊

© Pranav Chaturvedi