The Legal Status of Artificial Intelligence in Chinese Private Law

With the advent of Artificial Intelligence(AI), Big Data, Cloud Computing, that is call the “ABC era”, the IT industry has come in the era of Artificial Intelligence, which has become the core of the whole intelligence era. The short-term impact of Artificial Intelligence depends on who controls Artificial Intelligence, while the long-term impact is subject to whether Artificial Intelligence can be controlled. Therefore, the application and development of Artificial Intelligence need the definition of legal personality. First, this paper combs the reasons why natural persons and legal persons in the existing civil subject structure are granted civil subject qualifications. Secondly, combined with the characteristics of Artificial Intelligence entity, this paper is analyzed whether Artificial Intelligence should be entitled civil subject qualifications. Finally, it summarizes the new ideas about the construction of subject qualification in foreign private laws and puts forward some suggestions that are in match with the local situation of China.