The article examines the philosophical and legal issues of the ontology of law, which are analyzed in the interaction of law and artificial intelligence (hereinafter — AI). The urgency of the problem is due to the increasing and often negative influence of AI on the existence (ontology) of law, as well as discovered inability of law to timely and effectively counteract such influence. The author aimed to analyze the main areas of influence of emergent (swarm) AI both on the law itself and on the relations regulated by law. In line with this goal, the tasks of analyzing a number of legal problems related to the development of LegalTech in areas that go beyond the automation of routine legal processes. Special attention was paid to the use of AI technologies in the field related to justice and to implementation of AI in the creative sphere protected by copyright. Methods: the research is based on general scientific methods of a systematic approach, as well as on the philosophical and legal methodology of the libertarian‑law type of law understanding, from the standpoint of which the main method of legal analysis is the type of legal understanding and the underlying concept of law as a system of human rights based on equality of people in their freedom. AI technologies, actively invading the existence of law, often give rise to qualitatively new problems that change scientific approaches to the ontology of law. Practice shows that ill‑considered and uncontrolled development of AI carries a destructive potential that can undermine the foundations of the existence (ontology) of law as a system of human rights. A conclusion is made about the need for interdisciplinary research in the space of intersection of the ontology of law and sciences dealing with IT technologies, with the involvement of specialists in the field of philosophy of law.
ANNA NERSESYANTS (Thu,) studied this question.