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Are robot cops the future of efficient, bias-free policing?
"“I'm skeptical that this idea satisfies the patentability requirements of novelty and nonobviousness,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a professor of law an…
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AI in Government: Experts Are of Two Minds
"“Right now these systems are either not doing what they’re supposed to be doing or they’re doing things in ways that allow the companies that are selling…
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Latest Tesla Autopilot Wreck Shows How Future Car Accidents Will Be Investigated Like Plane Crashes
"“Aviation suggests the way forward,” says autonomy researcher Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor in the School of Law and the School of Engineeri…
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Blame game: Self-driving car crash highlights tricky legal question
"Companies operating autonomous vehicles are likely to settle quickly in crash-related lawsuits when the technology appears to be at fault, and fight might…
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Microsoft Says AI Advances Will Require New Laws, Regulations
"Microsoft is working on some of these areas through groups such as the Partnership on AI, which includes rivals like Amazon.com Inc., Alphabet Inc.’s Goog…
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Big Brother on wheels: Why your car company may know more about you than your spouse.
"The law has been unable to keep up with rapid advancements in auto technology, according to Ryan Calo, an associate professor of law at the University of…
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2 Detroit auto shows: The big truck present and high-tech future
""It breaks down to balancing the need to make money today versus making money tomorrow," said Bryant Walker Smith, an associate professor at the…
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Want guns? Drugs? Self-driving cars may become the perfect delivery vehicle
"“Self-driving cars may enable new crimes that we can’t even imagine today,” said Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at Californ…
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In 2017, society started taking AI bias seriously
""2017, perhaps, was a watershed year, and I predict that in the next year or two the issue is only going to continue to increase in importance,"…
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Driverless cars won’t need backup drivers in California next year
"Twenty-two states have guidelines on autonomous vehicle use. But most of those have only the “barest outlines” of rules, says Bryant Walker Smith, a Unive…
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After backlash, animal shelter fires security robot, “effective immediately”
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington who studies robotics, said that there is no clear evidence that Knightscope's robots can, i…
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Should Robots Have Rights?
"As robots gain citizenship and potential personhood in parts of the world, it’s appropriate to consider whether they should also have rights. So argues N…