Keywords
Digitalization
Human rights
Legal liability
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Abstract
Purpose: This study analyses the current state of AI regulation in Ukraine, identifies systemic regulatory gaps, and proposes directions for improving legal mechanisms and liability models.
Methodology: The research applies a systematic legal analysis using comparative legal analysis, content analysis of regulatory acts, structural-functional analysis, normative interpretation of scientific literature.
Originality: The article provides an integrated view of AI regulation through the dimension of digital sovereignty, showing how Ukraine must design AI regulation at the intersection of national priorities and international convergence.
Key findings: Current Ukrainian AI regulation remains fragmented, primarily limited to intellectual property and general civil liability norms. Ethical aspects, transparency, accountability, and comprehensive liability allocation remain insufficiently codified. International models offer applicable templates for risk-based harmonisation and institutionalisation.
Theoretical contributions: The study formulates a conceptual approach for integrating classical legal liability doctrine into AI contexts and proposes methodological foundations for developing Ukrainian ethical standards, risk-based regulation and institutional mechanisms that ensure balanced interaction between innovation, human rights and state regulatory oversight.
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