Governments are beginning to use algorithms to influence decisions affecting citizens' rights, benefits, security and opportunities. But when an AI system becomes part of the machinery of government, who is legally accountable for its decisions?

As artificial intelligence moves from assisting humans to making increasingly consequential decisions, a fundamental legal question is emerging: who is responsible when AI makes the decision? The future of AI law may depend less on controlling machines and more on determining where human and legal accountability begins and ends.