Artificial Intelligence: Beyond the legal limits

Abstract

In the last years, the Ecuadorian legislator has dedicated to treat as a priority the economic topics, ignoring the diverse technological advances, reason why the legal reflection on Artificial Intelligence (systems of algorithms that learn of themselves) is practically nonexistent, although it has been incorporated in several scopes of our daily life. Although the human being has not developed strong Artificial Intelligence yet, the impact in many areas, including the legal one, is undeniable, so we must think about the legal regulation both in the present, and in the future, to establish certain fundamental rules.  We cannot ignore that already exists in the world a citizen android, Sofia, whose case leads us to reflect if perhaps it is necessary to recognize as holder of rights to the Artificial Intelligence, a subject without face nor necessarily human appearance, as it happened, in the year 2008, with the Nature.