Abstract
AI and Robots are tools created by humans, and are currently at the stage where they are nothing more than tools which only operate according to human intentions. However, if autonomous robots controlled by AI system come to be used everywhere in society, the associated legal issues should be given a thorough legal re-examination. If we fail to scrutinize the new information security countermeasures for the use of intelligent robots and artificially intelligent entities or if we fail to review the legal issues accompanying the spread of consumer electronics, robots equipped with AI, and cars that operate as highly automated vehicle systems, the types of security problems which have impacted the development of the Internet could arise again in other, new contexts that involve artificial intelligence. There is a fear that this danger will spread beyond the problems within ‘virtual spaces’ (such as the Internet), and present threats which will dramatically raise the likelihood of physical danger resulting from the actions caused by AI. The possibility of an AI running out of control and posing a danger to humans has been noted as one of the potential threats posed by robots that are becoming more and more autonomous. This paper focuses on the principal Japanese AI and Robot Law, strategy and research trend toward establishing basic principles that would be helpful for considering to conduct trials of such technologically innovative issues.
