Abstract

Technologies based in machine learning and artificial technology play a growing role in modern societies, altering existing social dynamics or even introducing new modes of interpersonal interaction. Those changes become relevant for legal philosophy as they transform social relations that are regulated by law or the ways in which legal systems function, for instance through the automation of tasks currently performed by judges, lawyers, and other legal actors. But, at the same time that artificial intelligence can present legal philosophy with new questions, it can also enable new approaches for the study of complex social relations and their impacts in legal philosophy. In this paper, I propose questions and approaches to enable a dialogue between legal philosophy and artificial intelligence research that can be fruitful for both fields and for the social roles played by law.