Google's march to the business of war must be stopped
Should Google, a global company with intimate access to the lives of billions, use its technology to bolster one country’s military dominance? Should it use its…
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Americans Can't Have Audi's Super Capable Self-Driving System
"“I think law gets blamed too often,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a legal scholar with the University of South Carolina School of Law who studies self-drivin…
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Google Employees Resign in Protest Against Pentagon Contract
"More than 90 academics in artificial intelligence, ethics, and computer science released an open letter today that calls on Google to end its work on Proj…
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How do you define “safe driving” in terms a machine can understand?
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who studies driverless-car regulations, similarly welcomes the proposals from Mob…
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Artificial intelligence art -- who owns the copyright?
If your pet dog Hans takes a selfie, does he own the copyright? A recent decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) is instru…
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Uber sets safety review; media report says software cited in fatal crash
"Bryant Walker Smith, a self-driving car expert and law professor at the University of South Carolina, said in an email that the report by The Information…
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Driverless cars are growing in number, but makers don't want to reveal how they sometimes fail
"The lack of transparency about the workings of sensors, logic processors, mapping systems and other driverless technology, like the debate over robot-car…
Why the world needs to regulate autonomous weapons, and soon
The Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) at the UN has just concluded a second round of meetings on lethal autonomous weapons systems in Geneva, und…
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What Happens When a Self-driving Car Is at Fault?
"Not to mention its track record. “It’s not just being able to show what happened but being able to show that the data should be believed,” says Bryant Wal…
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Self-Driving Cars, Thinking Machines Will Test Limits Of Tort Law
"“Something goes wrong, but there’s no perpetrator,” said Ryan Calo, a professor at the University of Washington Law School who focuses on the intersection…
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Tesla's Fatal Crash
Tesla can do better than its current public response to the recent fatal crash involving one of its vehicles. I would like to see more introspection, credibilit…
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Tesla Keeps Using Disputed Crash Stat to Defend Autopilot
"“If Tesla’s going to keep asserting that, and particularly if they’re going to keep crediting NHTSA for it, then I think they need to provide the necessar…