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Agency Might Have Overstated Tesla Autopilot's Safety Impact
"“The lesson here is a need for candor,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a driverless-vehicle law expert at the University of South Carolina. “What does it mean…
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Scientists call for ban on lethal, autonomous robots
"None of the panelists said they were seeking to bar the use of robotics in all military applications. However, a sharp moral line should be drawn when it…
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The gloomy saga of Article 13 just got a whole lot worse
"“Article 13 creates more or less limitless liability with extraordinarily narrow exemptions,” says Annemarie Bridy, an academic intellectual property and…
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NHTSA's Autopilot Claim That Tesla Touted Disputed in New Study
"“What I really took away was there wasn’t the kind of data submitted to NHTSA that would give an agency the kind of confidence to make the statement it di…
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Trump’s Plan to Keep America First in AI
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, says it’s good to see the White House taking AI and its effects seriously. He also says it wil…
Democracy and inequality as a global foreign policy agenda
[The below text is a short memo I presented for a workshop on a left-liberal financial foreign policy for the US last week.] The US left is starting to come to…
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YouTube’s copyright strikes have become a tool for extortion
"“But that’s not the world we live in in 2019,” says Annemarie Bridy, a University of Idaho law professor specializing in copyright. “It’s a statute from a…
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Trump signs executive order to boost AI technology
"Ryan Calo, a cyber law expert at the University of Washington, told The Hill that Trump's executive order appears to incorporate some elements of form…
EXCLUSIVE: FBI’s War Crimes Unit on the Chopping Block
[UPDATED] A special unit within the Federal Bureau of Investigation that handles war crimes may be shut down imminently, according to officials familiar with th…
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Inside the Secret Facebook War For Mormon Hearts and Minds
"“The business model of delivering messages according to customer lists or email addresses—we have all heard of that,” said Omer Tene, chief knowledge offi…
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Most Sextortion Victims Aren’t Billionaires
"“Law is pretty much a blunt instrument here,” said Danielle Citron, a law professor at University of Maryland who wrote the book Hate Crimes in Cyberspace…
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Google Home's Assistant could one day know your mood. Take that, Alexa
"Huffman won't speculate on the types of regulation, but Jen King, director of privacy at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, has an idea of…