On the issue of legal policy in the field of giving legal personality of artificial intelligence
the article deals with the issue of modern legal policy in the field of possible giving legal personality to such a digital phenomenon as artificial intelligence. In this regard, an analysis is given of the official legal definition of «artificial intelligence», which is fixed in the relevant thematic Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, in a comparative context with the activity of the human nervous system. It is noted that today artificial intelligence is tasked with almost complete imitation of the cognitive functions of homo sapiens, which cannot but affect the modernization of legal regulation in the field of material and procedural legal relations. Expanding in more detail the problems associated with the hypothesis of giving artificial intelligence legal personality, the paper notes that if, from a biological point of view, it will be able to reproduce almost all the main cognitive human components and competencies in the near future, this does not mean that it will automatically be endowed with legal personality. including legal capacity and legal capacity. The latter is explained by the supremacy of the principle of user control over the independence of non-biological intelligent systems, especially in the administration of justice in civil, administrative and criminal cases.