Ryan Calo

Ryan Calo is an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law and a former research director at CIS. A nationally recognized expert in law and emerging technology, Ryan's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, Wired Magazine, and other news outlets. Ryan serves on several advisory committees, including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Future of Privacy Forum. He co-chairs the American Bar Association Committee on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence and serves on the program committee of National Robotics Week.

You can read Ryan's work on SSRN and follow him on Twitter.

One-Way Mirror Society

By Ryan Calo • February 10, 2010 at 11:49 am

Pam Dixon of World Privacy Forum has released an eye-opening new report (PDF) about offline consumer surveillance. Pam describes a quiet revolution in digital signage able to profile us as "users" of real space. I've written before about the danger of techniques developed on the Internet bleeding out into the real world. Well here is the proof. As Wired's Chris Anderson recently wrote in another context, "atoms are the new bits." Pam's report shows just why that matters. Read more » about One-Way Mirror Society

National Robotics Week

By Ryan Calo • February 3, 2010 at 9:46 am

I'm very happy to announce National Robotics Week, an effort by leading robotics companies, research universities, museums, and others to raise awareness of U.S. robotics. In this inaugural year, NRW will take place all over the country April 10 through 18, including three great events in the Bay Area.

The website is nationalroboticsweek.org. You can follow NRW on Twitter (#roboweek) and Facebook.

PS: The NRW logo is available under a Creative Commons license. Read more » about National Robotics Week

Audit Zittrain's "Difficult Problems In Cyberlaw"

By Ryan Calo • January 6, 2010 at 4:14 pm

Jonathan Zittrain and Elizabeth Stark invite you to follow along with "Difficult Problems in Cyberlaw," an innovative course at Stanford involving students from three leading schools. Details for the course---including a wiki and Twitter---below. I'm appearing as a guest on January 12.

"In the coming three weeks, students from Harvard, MIT, and Stanford will be tackling real-life problems of Internet commerce, governance, security, and information dissemination at Stanford Law School. This course, Difficult Problems in Cyberlaw, covers the Global Network Initiative, ubiquitous human computing, the future of Wikipedia, and cybersecurity, and is co-taught by Jonathan Zittrain and Elizabeth Stark." Read more » about Audit Zittrain's "Difficult Problems In Cyberlaw"

Audio/Video Of Robotics And The Law Panel

By Ryan Calo • December 5, 2009 at 11:02 am

You can now find both the audio and the video of our panel on robotics and the law on the Stanford Law School website. See also my recent blog post.

Here are some links to just a few of the people thinking about robotics and either law or ethics: Read more » about Audio/Video Of Robotics And The Law Panel

Robotics & The Law: Liability For Personal Robots

By Ryan Calo • November 25, 2009 at 3:41 pm

I’m in the middle of writing a paper on liability for harm caused by (or with) personal robots. The paper grows out of a panel that Dan Siciliano and I organized around the present, near future, and far future of robotics and the law. I’ve recently received some media coverage that, while welcome and accurate, presents a danger of oversimplifying my position. Specifically, a few people have understood my remarks to suggest that manufacturers should enjoy total immunity for the personal robots they build and sell, merely because doing otherwise would chill innovation.

This post develops my position in a little more detail. On my view, robotics manufacturers should be immune from certain theories of civil liability—particularly those premised on the range of a robot’s functionality. I don’t believe that the law should bar accountability for roboticists in all instances. Nor am I by any means certain that my suggestion represents the exact right way to handle liability. But I am convinced that we should talk about the issue. The alternative is to risk missing out on a massive global advance in technology capable of substantially better our world. Read more » about Robotics & The Law: Liability For Personal Robots

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