Can you sue a robot? Estonia working on law to address their legal status
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ESTONIA, the country which helped create Skype and hosts Nato's cyberdefence centre, is also trying to stay ahead of the pack in regulating robotics.
Its economy ministry is working on legislation that would address the status of artificial intelligence in legal disputes, said Siim Sikkut, the official in charge of the government's IT strategy. One proposal under consideration would create the term "robot-agent", which would be somewhere between having a separate legal personality and an object that is someone else's property.
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