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Legally Speaking: Teaching what matters
"Bryant Walker-Smith who teaches the “Autonomous Driving” class at Stanford describes it as a way to teach torts using modern automotive class action suits…
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Meet the Man Behind the Push to Ban Killer Robots
"To bring clearer into focus the backdrop of killer robots and the threat they pose, I talked to Peter Asaro, co-founder of the International Committee for…
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FTC's Ohlhausen: Privacy Regs Could Harm Startups
"Privacy scholar Ryan Calo has argued that creepiness in advertising can be problematic in itself. How so? He says that making people feel “creeped out” on…
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What driverless car entrepreneurs can learn from the aviation industry
"‘The biggest legal question is the fact that there are questions,’ says Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at the Centre for Internet and Society at Stanford U…
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Human rights experts, activists push for ban on 'killer robots'
"M. Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor with expertise in robotics and data security, notes that there are upsides to robotic warfare, like…
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Roadmap for Driverless Cars: Five Highlights
"Bryant Walker Smith, a lecturer at Stanford Law School who studies driverless vehicles, said there’s still no consensus on how we’ll know these cars are s…
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The Pros and Cons of Killer Robots
"“Autonomous systems interacting with each other competitively can escalate quickly and unpredictably,“ says Dr. Peter Asaro, a philosopher of science at t…
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Self-Driving Cars for Testing Are Supported by U.S.
"Even though technology companies like Google generally fear that innovation far outpaces regulation and risks being stifled by it, it has a different appr…
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How much do college students care about online privacy?
""Young people don't think about privacy of information to third parties," Hartzog said. "When they get older, it becomes more real. It…
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Taking a Flier on Big Data
"However, the level of precision that satisfies marketers is very different from the exactitude required by government agencies, says Jennifer Granick, dir…
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Beneath the Fold: The Twisted Tale of Origami v. Sarah Morris
"“In the spectrum of highly protected to lower-protected, they’re definitely on the lower end of the scale,” Ms. Ahrens said." * Date Published:05/2…
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UN reports on lack of 'moral responsibility' inherent in using 'killer robots'
"On Wednesday, May 29th in Geneva, Switzerland, a United Nations report will be presented on the moral problems of using autonomous weapons (or "kille…