Artificial Intelligence Technology as a Complex Object of Intellectual Rights

The paper aims to identify the legal essence of artificial intelligence technologies. The research relevance is confirmed by its compliance with the goals of national strategies for the development of artificial intelligence adopted by more than 30 countries. The development of the regulatory framework outlined in the strategies is impossible without determining the legal essence of artificial intelligence. During the research, the authors applied the comparative legal method, the method of classification, and systematization. The authors summarized the opinions of foreign and Russian lawyers and identified four main scientific approaches.