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Human Driver of ‘Driverless’ Car Charged in 2018 Ped Death
“The fact that this driver has been charged with a crime does not vindicate Uber in any way,” said Bryant Walker Smith, a lawyer, engineer, and internationally…
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Where Are the Self-Driving Cars?
“Comparing disengagement rates between companies is worse than meaningless: It creates perverse incentives….If I wanted to look even better, I’d do a ton of eas…
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A Dogfight Renews Concerns About AI's Lethal Potential
"“One wonders if the vision of a rapid, overwhelming, swarm-like robotics technology is really consistent with a human being in the loop,” says Ryan Calo,…
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Amazon and FedEx Push to Put Delivery Robots on Your Sidewalk
"Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who studies emerging tech, says the bills don’t mean you’ll wake up tomorrow to an Amazo…
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The Quiet Growth of Race-Detection Software Sparks Concerns Over Bias
"Using AI to identify ethnicity “seems more likely to harm than help,” says Arvind Narayanan, a computer science professor at Princeton University who has…
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Michigan plans dedicated road lanes for autonomous vehicles
"The lanes would be helpful for the current state of autonomous vehicles, which still cannot operate safely with human-driven vehicles under all traffic an…
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Would You Trust a Lawyer Bot With Your Legal Needs?
"“As soon as there’s some complexity or some resistance by the system, the automation is unable to handle it,” says Ryan Calo, a law professor at the Unive…
“Reengineering Humanity” and the Arctic Code Vault
The late Stephen Hawking famously warned that Artificial Intelligence might someday become so clever as to supersede humans. But academic and author, Brett Fri…
The Oxford Handbook of Online Intermediary Liability
(Oxford University Press, edited by Giancarlo Frosio) The theoretical—and market—background against which the intermediary liability debate developed has chang…
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Safety or surveillance: drones and the COVID-19 pandemic
I spoke with Ryan Calo, a professor of law at the University of Washington who studies emerging tech and policy. He said it’s good that people are thinking crea…
Text and Data Mining: Articles 3 and 4 of the Directive 2019/790/EU
(with Christophe Geiger and Oleksandr Bulayenko) in Concepción Saiz García and Raquel Evangelio Llorca (eds.), "Propiedad intelectual y mercado único digi…
Algorithmic Enforcement Online
in Paul Torremans, ed., Intellectual Property and Human Rights (4th edition, Kluwer Law Int’l, forthcoming 2020), 709-744 Artificial Intelligence (AI) is incre…