Co-founder of Mail.ru Group, Dmitry Grishin, developed the concept of a law on the legal status of robots

The founder of Grishin Robotics and co-founder of Mail.ru Group, Dmitry Grishin, together with the managing partner of the St. Petersburg office of Dentons and the head of Russian practice in the field of intellectual property, IT and telecommunications Viktor Naumov, developed the concept of a document defining the legal status of robots, Vedomosti reports .



As planned by Naumov and Grishin, the rules used for animals and legal entities should be applied to robots. According to Grishin's concept, AI in its current state, in the absence of emotion, cannot become a subject of law, but there is a similarity between robots and animals, since they can autonomously perform certain actions. In this case, the creators and owners of robots may apply the rules used now in relation to the owners of sources of increased danger. It is also allowed to create a register of robots by analogy with the Unified State Register of Companies.



At the same time, Dmitry Grishin does not deny the relevance of the laws of robotics , formed by science fiction writer Isaac Asimov. The document provides for four scenarios of criminal responsibility for the owner (or creator) of the robot, all of which, in theory, led to a violation of Azimov’s first law of robotics :

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• designing a killer robot specifically to commit an offense;
• disabling software and hardware functions that block the possibility of causing harm to a person;
• designing a robot capable of harming humans;
• constructing a robot without the knowledge that it can be used to cause harm to humans.

Grishin has already sent his project to leading Russian legal institutes (Institute of State and Law of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow State University and St. Petersburg State University, MSLA, HSE, etc.) to receive an assessment. The goal of his work is to make changes to the Civil Code of the Russian Federation and create a separate law “On Robotics”.



The work of the co-founder of the mail.ru Group has practical applications in the near future. The first candidates for regulation when adopting the project Grishin will be actively developing robotic transport. Unmanned vehicles are now ideally fit into the concept of "increased risk", and the study of issues of responsibility for the actions of robots (robotic) will help prepare the legal framework for their legal use.



Olga Uskova, President of Cognitive Technologies, whose company is engaged in the development of robot vehicles for KAMAZ, believes that the Grishin project should be expanded. In the first place - to work out standards for determining the level of intellectualization of robots, as well as to determine patterns of behavior in emergency cases (for example, when victims are inevitable).



At the same time, the density of robotization in Russia is incredibly low: if there are 69 industrial robots per 10,000 workers worldwide, then there is only one in the Russian Federation.