Problems of criminal liability for damage caused by an unmanned vehicle

Abstract

Scientific and technological progress, rapidly gaining strength, gave rise to such a phenomenon as artificial intelligence (AI). In modern reality, the use of AI has become characteristic of almost all spheres of society and it can be assumed that the scale of its application will increase rapidly. No exception is the transport industry, in which unmanned aerial vehicles and unmanned vehicles have become a reality. Like any other area associated with human interaction and technology, the field of public relations needs legal regulation, however, in view of its novelty, there is almost no such regulation nowadays. At the same time, the functioning of autonomous unmanned vehicles will inevi-tably give rise to the problem of liability for damage caused by these technical devices, including damage of a criminal nature. The matter is aggravated by the fact that the nonstandard situation reveals complete unpreparedness of the criminal law system to respond to this problem. In the modern criminal law of any state there are no acceptable criminal-legal models of counterac-tion to the described criminal phenomenon. This is due to the fact that all known measures of criminal law impact are not applicable to such a phenomenon as a carrier of AI due to its specific nature.