The law of air
"the law of artificial intelligence and robotics"
The Law of AIR
The Law of Air (law of artificial intelligence and robotics) can be described as the law as it applies to artificial intelligence and robotics. The law of AIR is a subset of ICT law and reflects the reality of legal convergence as it relates to the convergence of technology in ICT.
Artificial intelligence is starting to govern our daily lives in a profound but invisible manner. Legal rights apply to this new reality and subsequently has given birth to the law of artificial intelligence and robotics.
"We chose to accept the reality we live in as much as we have created it" GPB
Pool of Knowledge and Data Sets
Machine learning is the genesis of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Conversely machine learning is dependant on data. More specifically data sets, which is defined as a “collection of data that is treated as a single unit by a computer” by the Oxford dictionary, is the information from which AI is created through machine learning.
Data sets are collected into data structures which in turn is contained in data lakes. This is the food of machine learning and is referred to as training data.
“…Machine learning is the method to train a computer to learn from its inputs but without explicit programming for every circumstance. Machine learning helps a computer to achieve artificial intelligence." Copeland, B.J.. "artificial intelligence".
Object of the law
It is the legal integrity of the collection and processing of data that establishes its legality. The GDPR and other privacy laws defines data processing as:
“the collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction of personal data. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) applies to the processing of personal data wholly or partly by automated means as well as to non-automated processing, if it is part of a structured filing system.” https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/what-constitutes-data-processing_en
It is not only privacy data that is the object of legal rights in relation to AIR (artificial intelligence and robotics). Legal ownership rights apply to AIR in a big way. More precisely put intellectual property (IP) rights. Loosely defined, copyright is generated when a person or juristic person creates information that is original. It does not matter if this information is private or is in the public domain. Data sets containing IP (without permission) of others and utilized in AIR is probably against the law.
Generative AI is a good example where machine learning can utilize IP and generate information (pictures, movies and art) that is not considered in law to be unique and therefore an illegal copy of the original IP.
Convergence
Point of Convergence
Data processing is the point of convergence between the law of AIR and the technology of AIR. Data processing in context to AIR would include the full life cycle of artificial intelligence.
Life cycle of AIR
Creating AIR should be seen as constituting three distinct phases. The first phase would be the collection of the data. The second phase is the utilization of the collected data for machine learning. AI is generated in this phase. The third and final phase would be the utilization of AIR.
The life cycle of AIR would be:
The collection of data. • Utilization of the collected data for machine learning (creation phase). • The output or utilization of AIR.
All three phases need to be lawful and legally compliant.