Crandall Melvin Professor of Law Shubha Ghosh is conducting research on artificial intelligence (AI) agents as a visiting scholar at Bucerius Law School in Hamburg, Germany.
The research, Legal Principles for Artificial Agents, is being conducted in collaboration with the Bucerius IP Center.
Ghosh, Director of the Syracuse Intellectual Property Law Institute, gave a lecture to students on the research. “The common understanding is that AI is a tool to satisfy certain tasks. But more than metaphorically, we also use AI much like we hire a human employee. The discussion will examine the analytical strengths and weaknesses of thinking about AI as an employee, drawing on a branch of law called agency law. One main conclusion is that introducing agency law into the AI discussion supports bringing fiduciary principles as a possible guardrail on AI technologies.”