Artificial Intelligence In Islamic Studies: Current Trends And Future Research Direction

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By: Sonny Zulhuda

Today, I will be sharing online with the audience from the Postgraduate School of UIN SYAHADA Padangsidimpuan, North Sumatra on the above topic.

I must thank the director of the School who is also my long-time senior friend and mentor Prof. Dr. H. Ibrahim Siregar, MCL. for this invitation. It will be a great opportunity to also meet fellow speakers whom I know fondly among others Prof. Dr. H. Fatahuddin Aziz Siregar, M.Ag. who was the Dean of the Law and Shariah Faculty. This is reminiscent of my visit to the University back in 2019. I have a very good acquaintance with some professors there until now including Dr Ikhwanuddin Harahap and Pak Dr Risalan Harahap. Due to this great relationship, since 2021, I have delivered cybercrime law courses to the students there.

I applaud the organisers for this event. It will be an important eye-opening series of sessions with multiple speakers to share about Artificial Intelligence from various perspectives. In this event, I will be speaking about the nature of AI legal risks and the need to regulate the development, deployment and use of AI, inshaAllah.

I share some emerging legal issues surrounding Artificial Intelligence, among others:

  1. Agency in Contract – AI has been used to manage commercial transactions, starting from pre-sales, sales, and post-sales. Concerns arise over the status of the agency of AI substituting human agency.
  2. Privacy & Security – with a bulk of information being stored and processed by AI, questions arise on the fair processing rules: consent, minimization, security, and non-human decision-making.
  3. Consumer Protection – when more accidents are caused by AI, who will be responsible for compensating the victims? If the AI falls under the high-risk system, has the risk assessment been complied with properly? Then, are people adequately informed about all those risks and other necessary information?
  4. Algorithmic Biases – biases are the biggest enemy of AI. Have the AI developers and deployers considered the bias risks? When AI is used in a non-developer country, have the programmes been adjusted to suit the local circumstances and to avoid localized biases?
  5. Control & Responsibility – of all the risks and potential liabilities above, who will assume responsibility in the case of default? Has there been a clear allocation of liabilities between Developers, Deployers, Users, and End-users?

For more insights on this topic, the participants can obtain the slides here.

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