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title: "Attribution of Knowledge to Artificial Agents and their Principals"
authors:
  - "Samir Chopra"
  - "Laurence White"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2005/104"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2005/0104.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2005
pages: "1175-1179"
track: ""
keywords:
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# Attribution of Knowledge to Artificial Agents and their Principals

Samir Chopra, Laurence White

*Proceedings of the Nineteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1175-1179.

## Abstract

We consider the problem of attribution of knowledge to artificial agents and their legal principals. When can we say that an artificial agent X knows p and that its principal can be attributed the knowledge of p? We offer a pragmatic analysis of knowledge attribution and apply it to the legal theory of artificial agents and their principals.