Project Details
Projekt
Corporate law between anthropocentrism and self-driving corporation - how much AI can a company tolerate?
Applicant
Professor Dr. Matthias Casper
Subject Area
Private Law
Term
since 2026
Project identifier
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 548899139
Machine-based decision-making raises complex questions in company law that are far from being fully explored. In line with the overall application of the group, the main objective of sub-project 6 is to explore how much anthropocentrism is necessary, but also desirable, in company law. In order to explore this question from a legal dogmatic, comparative and the perspective of law and economics, the sub-project combines two paths. Firstly, the sub-project aims to work out anthropocentric basic principles in German company law and possible limits of so-called self-driving corporations. The second path of the sub-project seeks answers to the question of how a corporation should be organized in order to use AI for the benefit of society. The aim is to present a further contribution to the control of the use of AI in the stock corporation. Among other things, concrete corporate digital responsibility in the board of directors are to be worked out. In addition to the stock corporation, this question will also be analyzed for the GmbH.
DFG Programme
Research Units
Co-Investigator
Professor Dr. Florian Möslein
