"Even non-lethal autonomous robots raise serious ethical question. As technology philosopher Peter Asaro told me in an email earlier this year, Google’s se…
"Assistant Professor of law Ryan Calo developed his answer from a law and policy perspective. Currently, law could find inadequacies in security of househo…
Forget about losing your job to a robot. And don’t worry about a super-smart, but somehow evil, computer. We have more urgent ethical issues to deal with right…
""Right now they're focusing on how to protect people and airplanes," Ryan Calo, drone expert and law professor at the University of Washingt…
""By marketing a system that does some but not all of the driving, Tesla could be setting itself up for liability first if the vehicle malfunctions, b…
"Who’s Liable for Software Vulnerabilities in Cars? Bryant Walker Smith, Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina School of Law discussed respons…
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"“Companies can get away with a lot that’s in a legal gray area, as long as bad things don’t happen,” says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at t…
"Peter Asaro, a professor at the New School in New York, noted that without a human in control, machines fail to take in the unpredictable variables and co…
"There are two possible lines for making the determination, Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington, suggested to The Huffington Post: w…
""The key question here is whether the relevant technologies have reached a demonstrated level of socially acceptable risk," said Bryant Walker S…
"Gerdes has been working with a philosophy professor, Patrick Lin, to make ethical thinking a key part of his team’s design process. Lin, who teaches at Ca…