"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina, says, “A law that gives individual communities more flexibility in working with…
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina and an expert in automotive safety and regulation, said Honda could make an argum…
"So what now? It was unfortunate that the chat bot was deployed under the Microsoft brand name, with Tay’s Twitter responses seeming to come from Tay, not…
My recently completed article presents steps that governments can take now to encourage the development, deployment, and use of automated road vehicles. After p…
"Paradoxically, the human factor is also cited by those in favor of the development of lethal autonomous weapons. "Robots aren't scared," Ste…
""We should be concerned about automated vehicles," says Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who studies the techno…
"The legal system has been wrestling with what robots can and can’t do for longer than you might think. A new paper by Ryan Calo, a law professor at the Un…
"“What happens with any new technology is that we deploy them, and don’t lock them down properly until things go wrong,” says Ryan Calo, an assistant profe…
The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is an international coalition of 59 groups, including Human Rights Watch and the Nobel Women’s Committee. Spokesman Peter As…
"Do machines have rights? It's a classic question in science fiction, but we've reached a point where the question can be hammered out in actual ca…
"Robots. Are they people, too? Science fiction has long consider the legal rights of artificially intelligent beings. But as robots become an increasing p…
""The devil is in the details, and once you go deeper, you discover these weird legal details you never would have guessed," says Bryant Walker S…