Contributor(s): Professor Andrew Murray | HAL 9000 will soon no longer be science fiction: sentient machines will quickly be with us. As “smart agents” make decisions for human actors a number of important legal issues will emerge. In this short film, LSE Professor Andrew Murray looks at how AI will fundamentally alter our understanding of what the law is and what it can achieve.

These themes will be the focus of Professor Murray’s forthcoming book - The Objective Self: Identity and Law in the Digital Society.