arXiv:2607.23888cs.HCcs.AI2026-07

分析559份联邦法院判决,揭示AI诉讼的常见争议与法律应对方式

Visible to the Court: How AI Is (and Isn't) Litigated in U.S. Federal Court Opinions

论文配图:Visible to the Court: How AI Is (and Isn't) Litigated in U.S. Federal Court Opinions
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  • 系统梳理559份判决中的争议主题、技术类型与诉讼主体
  • 发现7类高频争议、6类涉诉AI技术,法院多依赖既有法律而非新规则
  • 指出司法实践覆盖不足,部分AI风险未被纳入诉讼范畴

美国人工智能快速部署但联邦监管有限。随着法院成为AI相关争议的常设审理场所,有必要通过实证研究厘清当前的AI诉讼格局。本文对559份涉及AI的联邦法院判决进行系统分析,分类归纳了(1)常见争议议题、(2)涉诉人工智能技术类型、(3)主要诉讼参与方,包括原告与被告的典型类型,并识别出诉讼中引用的法律原则。研究发现七类反复出现的争议领域、六类核心涉诉AI技术及四类常见诉讼主体。与AI事故数据库对比显示,已记录与实际诉讼中的危害在覆盖范围、定义和发生频率上存在显著差异,表明法院仅捕捉到部分AI风险。此外,法院判决主要依赖既有法律原则处理AI问题,而非创设专门法规,形成一种“零散式”治理模式。因此,联邦法院裁决更多取决于现有法条能否涵盖特定危害,而非危害本身是否真实发生,导致某些AI风险长期处于法律真空。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

In the United States, artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly deployed amid limited federal regulation. With courts become a recurring forum in which AI-related practices are scrutinized, it is important to empirically understand the AI litigation landscape to date. We address this gap through a systematic review of 559 U.S. federal court opinions in which AI plays a role in the parties' contentions, taxonomizing (1) common topics of dispute, (2) the AI technologies implicated, and (3) the parties involved, including common plaintiff and defendant types. We identify seven recurring dispute areas, six categories of AI technologies at the center of litigation, and four types of common litigants, alongside legal doctrines used by the litigants. A comparison of this taxonomy to the AI Incident Database revealed substantial gaps in coverage, definitions, and prevalence between documented and litigated harms, suggesting courts capture only part of the AI risk landscape. In addition, we found that court decisions primarily rely on pre-existing legal doctrines to manage AI rather than making new AI-specific laws, producing a form of "piecemeal" AI governance. As a result, federal court outcomes are shaped less by where AI has caused harms and more by which harms are cognizable under existing statutes, leading to certain AI harms remaining unresolved.

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