No need for new law of tort to deal with challenges posed by artificial intelligence: law institute

By Ian Burns (June 3, 2024, 5:00 PM EDT) -- The use of artificial intelligence (AI) has become almost ubiquitous around the world in the past few years, with a concurrent fear of what effect new technology is going to have on people’s jobs. But a law reform institute in British Columbia is also saying more focus needs to be put on what effect AI has on the legal liability of increasingly capable autonomous machines....