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Expert: Texas, self-driving cars may mesh well
"Bryant Walker Smith, an associate professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law who has studied self-driving vehicle implications, said Texa…
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A drunk man's assault on a robot raises unusual legal issues
"This is in line with the thinking of Ryan Calo, a robo-ethicist and professor of law at the University of Washington who argues extensively that robotic t…
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Stopping killer robots
No longer confined to science fiction, the use of autonomous robots in a military context has become a very real possibility in recent years. International Inno…
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Introducing Spot, the four-legged robot dog: family pet or potential battle aid?
"“These robotic weapons would be able to choose and fire on targets on their own, without human intervention,” says Dr Peter Asaro of the Campaign to Stop…
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Who Regulates the Robots?
Woodrow Hartzog, Unfair and Deceptive Robots, 74 Maryland L. Rev. 785 (2015). When the law faces a new technology, a basic question is who governs it and with…
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Intelligent Machines: Do we really need to fear AI?
"Picture the scenario - a sentient machine is "living" in the US in the year 2050 and starts browsing through the US constitution. Having read i…
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Drones vs. driverless cars: A tale of two robotics policies
"“As a consequence, the rules were really good for Google, because they did exactly what Google wanted them to do,” said Ryan Calo, a robotics professor at…
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Volkswagen isn’t the first company to use software to break the law and it won’t be the last
"“Here’s an extreme example: What if Amazon’s robotic warehouses could reorganize themselves to meet fire code requirements with very little advance notice…
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These are the ways robots deceive us
"“I think robots are awesome,” said Woodrow Hartzog, a scholar at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society who specializes in human-robot interactions.…
Jobs for Robots
Simon Jack reports from Seattle on robots at work. From the Boeing factory where robots make planes to a clothes shop where a robot helps him buy a new pair of…
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Who Is Google’s Self-Driving Car CEO, and Where Is He Heading?
"That’s roughly how its in-car dashboard system, Android Auto, operates now. However, running an OS for a full vehicle, with its wealth of safety features…
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MIND THE GAP – But not our pay gap
"This issue over robots replacing traditional occupations has been discussed amongst academics since the dawn of artificial intelligence, and will unlikely…