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Blodgett-Ford, S.J. --- "Future privacy: A real right to privacy for artificial intelligence" [2018] ELECD 1413; in Barfield, Woodrow; Pagallo, Ugo (eds), "Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018) 307

Book Title: Research Handbook on the Law of Artificial Intelligence

Editor(s): Barfield, Woodrow; Pagallo, Ugo

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN: 9781786439048

Section: Chapter 11

Section Title: Future privacy: A real right to privacy for artificial intelligence

Author(s): Blodgett-Ford, S.J.

Number of pages: 46

Abstract/Description:

This chapter discusses legal issues related to hypothetical sentient artificial intelligence (“AI”). We consider whether such theoretical sentient AIs should have a “right to privacy” and, if so, what the scope of such a right should be. This analysis may offer an additional perspective regarding the human “right to privacy” in an increasingly online, global, and interconnected world. On the Internet, the line between augmented humans and AI is becoming challenging to discern, and citizenship/geographical residence is an artifact that various countries are fighting to preserve. The historical (and modern) lack of respect for the right to privacy for those deemed "other" does not bode well for treatment of sentient AIs. And even if we never have sentient AIs, perhaps we should do better now in our respect for the human right to privacy.