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Powerful Lobby Group Wants to Keep AI Unregulated
"Patrick Lin, director of the Ethics + Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytechnic State University, says that regulating new technologies is always…
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The Senate’s automated driving bill could squash state authority
My previous post on the House and Senate automated driving bills (HB 3388 and SB 1885) concluded by noting that, in addition to the federal government, states a…
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Congress’s automated driving bills are both more and less than they seem
Bills being considered by Congress deserve our attention—but not our full attention. To wit: When it comes to safety-related regulation of automated driving, ex…
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No One Knows What a Self-Driving Car Is, And It's Becoming a Problem
"This could prove a problem for automakers as well as customers. “What you call something can be a kind of implicit promise that the feature is capable of…
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California Wants to Make Your Robocar Dreams Come True
"Congress may finally be hacking away at national legislation that would firmly delineate who is responsible for regulating what about autonomous cars, but…
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NVIDIA AI platform promises fully autonomous taxis by 2018: Is it possible?
"However, it's important to remember that this is a processing platform, Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant law professor at the University of South Car…
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The European Commission, for One, Welcomes Our New Robot Overlords
This is my third and most intemperate blog post about the European Commission’s recent Communication on platforms and illegal content. The first two point out s…
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Autonomous-Car Regulations: Lawmakers Are Ready To Let Go of the Steering Wheel
"In large part, the SELF DRIVE Act should assuage companies’ concerns that their science projects could be sidelined by legislators. Even with a green lig…
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AI can make justice truly blind — but not just yet
"Civil liberty groups have warned against the inherent dangers of prejudiced AI in the legal system before. Law enforcement agencies now use tools to predi…
Why You Should Be Suspicious of That Study Claiming A.I. Can Detect a Person’s Sexual Orientation
Recently, the A.I. community was left largely stunned when a study released by two Stanford researchers claimed that artificial intelligence could essentially d…
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Trump’s self-driving car strategy: Don’t regulate self-driving cars
""This new policy adjusts the tone but continues much of the substance of last year's document," according to Bryant Walker Smith, a law prof…
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Driverless cars on public highways? Go for it, Trump administration says
"“The new policy adjusts the tone but continues much of the substance of (the Obama administration) document,” said Bryant Walker Smith, law professor at t…