LIABILITY FOR ETHICAL HARM ARISING FROM THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN INTERNATIONAL COMMERCIAL CONTRACTS: GAPS AND CONTRACTUAL MECHANISMS
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Uktamova Farangiz Muzaffar qizi
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This article examines the issue of the lack of legal mechanisms for redressing harm arising from ethical breaches in artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms within international commercial practice (B2B). Based on an analysis of the 1980 Vienna Convention, the UNIDROIT Principles, as well as the provisions of the EU AI Act and UNESCO’s codes of ethics, gaps have been identified: ethical harm cannot be reduced to traditional categories of loss, and soft law does not create liability between contracting parties. The author proposes a classification of AI ethical violations
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