Artificial Intelligence – 30+ Years Ago and Now (Chapter 2)

In the first installment of our “Artificial Intelligence – 30+ Years Ago and Now” article series, we discussed a newspaper column authored by our founding partner Noyan Turunç thirty-two years ago. We noted that today’s discussions around artificial intelligence (AI) are consistent with his predictions in that column.

Thirty-two years after that column, our managing partner Kerem Turunç was in New York, discussing AI with leading Turkish experts at a meeting organized by the New York Network of the Turkish Industry & Business Association (TÜSİAD), Turkey’s most influential business association. The topics discussed overlapped with those from thirry-two years ago: whether a “technological person” will emerge in addition to natural persons and legal persons, how the legal system will regulate AI and what Turkey needs to do to keep up with the AI race.

The law is facing, for the first time, an entity capable of making its own decisions, and is neither an individual nor a legal entity.

It seems that there is still some time before the legal system grants AI the power to own and use rights itself. Attaining AI that ‘operates independently like a human’ and for it to be recognized as a person from a legal perspective, will likely take a considerable time, despite all of the hubbub surrounding AI.

Those interested can find Oksijen Newspaper’s coverage (in Turkish) of the TÜSİAD meeting below:

Turkey must cease to be a user of AI technologies and become a developer. Otherwise, it will never be possible for it to catch up.