AI, Law and (Neuro-) Rights as New Human Rights?

The paper tries to provide some answers to the question whether the estab-lishment of the so-called ‘neuro-rights’ is necessary for the protection of people from possible risks related to the use of artificial intelligence (AI). An evident relationship exists between the development of new technologies and law, being law instrumental to the regulation of life in human communities, for their own survival. On the one hand, new technologies affect traditional legal categories. On the other hand, there is a frequent need to carry out a technological impact analysis of the laws in force or to be enacted, since they regulate events conditioned by the application of technologies, and due to the need for a preliminary technological education of decision-makers, as to allow the proper knowledge of the facts to be regulated. The paper is divided into a first part dedicated to the description of the context, a second part dedicated to highlighting the main problematic issues at present arising from the relationship between the role of law and the development of new technologies, and a third part where partial conclusions are drawn by developing some general reflections.