När ditt kylskåp köper din mjölk: Vissa avtalsrättsliga frågor vid avtal slutna med hjälp av artificiell intelligens

Sammanfattning: Ever more present in consumers everyday life, is artificial intelligence (AI) optimizing regular peoples’ experience. With this arises legal questions. The essay before you serve it purpose through presenting a general outline of the collision between AI-technology and contract law centering around the rights of consumers. This collision is most pronounced in regard to the question of proximate cause. To be able to have a right to compensation one must, in most case, establish the course of events manifesting what cause the damage. It will be apparent why this is a challenging task, in the field of AI-technology, due to something called the black box problem. In order to concretizes, and for the reader to be identify the real-world implications of legal discussion, this essay will use a scenario. In this scenario a consumer has purchased a smart refrigerator, that, using the technique of machine learning, autodidactically learns to determine the consumer’s purchase needs and to put a buy order. Furthermore, an error occors that bring to the fore the question of civil liability. The essay will examine this, utilize traditional legal methodology.