Artificial intelligence (AI) applications have proliferated on the internet. Increasingly, AI applications result in legal difficulties primarily associated with privacy, discrimination, product liability and negligence. Addressing these difficulties usually begins with a legal determination of which party may sue or be sued. Since an AI is not a legal person and internet transactions may span more than one jurisdiction, this initial assessment is non-trivial. However, an understanding of AI protocols may make such an assessment feasible.

Since legal difficulties are most often characterized by matters which may be resolved in court, addressing AI internet legal difficulties may best be addressed by first determining which entities associated with an internet transaction may be sued and by whom. Such a determination is a function of specific jurisdictional statutory language.