ETHPrague 2026

ETHPrague 2026

Contemporary AI Crime: Who Is Criminally Liable and How to Harness Blockchain
2026-05-08 –, Grégr Stage

Who is criminally liable when an AI agent commits a crime? The talk walks through today's liability models for AI, the retribution gap opened by autonomy and adaptability, and how blockchain can serve as audit trail, identity, or sanction layer.

Jakub Charvát is a lawyer and PhD candidate at Charles University, Prague, researching criminal liability of and for AI, and co-founder of Lawrence, a Czech legal AI startup. He authored the monograph Criminal Liability of Artificial Intelligence (Wolters Kluwer, 2025), hosts a podcast on the subject, and was TOP 5 at the Czech AI Personality Awards (Law).