The Legalhood of Artificial Intelligence: AI Applications as Energy Services

Ioannis Kougias

1 School of Education, Frederick University, Nicosia, Cyprus. Email: [email protected]

2 Laboratory, of Interdisciplinary Semantic Interconnected Symbiotic Education Environments, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Peloponnese, Greece. Email: [email protected]

*Corresponding Author

The importance of data has increased in the last century and these days it is an essential resource for any human activity as well as a vital component for our society. The use of AI is a major improvement in handling these data, the amount of which is becoming enormous. In a regulatory perspective, AI applications have an impact on the social and economic structure and the rights and values on which it is based upon. This paper is a crucial step on the path of building a consensus on the legal hypostasis of AI. It is our belief that unforeseeable and ground-breaking AI applications can be regulatorily tackled with respect to energy law.

Artificial intelligence, data, energy services, supplementary law interpretation

Lambrini Seremeti, Ioannis Kougias (2021). The Legalhood of Artificial Intelligence: AI Applications as Energy Services. Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Systems, 3, 83–92. https://doi.org/10.33969/AIS.2021.31006.

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