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Better Facial Recognition Tech Could Lead to Robot Hitmen
"“It is crucially important for the international community to establish a norm that prohibits delegating the authority to take human lives to machines,” P…
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Data, Public Perception and the Tesla Crash: Exploring Options for the Self-Driving Car Industry
"“If you simply want an exemption, if you want to get around a law of general application, then show the government why that is justified," Smith said…
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Are humans ready for self-driving cars?
"“There is a tendency of people to take one ride in one of these vehicles and then conclude that because they have not crashed over the course of 10 minute…
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Tesla Won’t Be Able to Put Crash Defense on Autopilot
"“Any argument will try to establish that Tesla acted in an unreasonable way that was a cause of the crash," said Bryant Walker Smith, a University of…
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Maschine entmündigt Mensch
"Wer ein solches Verhalten für unmoralisch hält, obwohl das Leben der Nächsten gerettet wird, ist schon mitten in der Diskussion, die in den USA und in Eur…
Focus on Human Decisions, Not Technological Ethics of Police Robots
The Alberta wildfires. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The meltdown of Fukushima. Robots have been used to address each of these emergencies, and many more. S…
Police Robots Could Reduce the Use of Deadly Force
The use of robots inevitably changes the equation for how police apply "use of force," a term that is broadly defined by the International Association…
Police Robots Need to Be Regulated to Avoid Potential Risks
The robot used by the Dallas police department to kill Micah Johnson — the sniper who fired into a peaceful protest and killed five police officers, injuring ot…
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Tesla's Autopilot Driving Mode Is A Legal Nightmare
"The problem may be that the term autopilot may be just enough to lull drivers into the false sense that the car doesn’t need any user input, and can just…
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Is Tesla’s Fatal Crash a Setback for Self-Driving Technologies?
"“Depending on the specific facts and the particular state’s law, Tesla could conceivably be liable to the family of the Tesla driver for the design and ma…
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The ethics of using 'bomb robots' as killing machines
"Ryan Calo, a faculty co-director at the University of Washington's Tech Policy Lab who spent 2000 to 2003 investigating claims of misconduct at the Ne…
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Out Cold and Behind the Wheel in Semi-autonomous and Autonomous Cars
""The developers have yet to design or at least demonstrate a system that can achieve a socially acceptable level of risk across a wide range of drivi…