What the Future of Self-Driving Cars Might Look Like
Self-driving cars – long the dream of science fiction, are closer to reality than you might think. In fact they’ve already traveled more than one million miles…
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Industry calls on lawmakers to re-examine rules for self-driving cars
"According to a 2014 law review article by Bryant Walker Smith, an affiliate scholar at the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, many st…
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5 questions (and answers) about robots that kill people
"After sharing a story on Twitter about a robot who killed a man in Germany, Ryan Calo, professor of robotics and cyberlaw at the University of Washington…
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You Shouldn't Be Afraid of that Killer Volkswagen Robot
"Headlines rang out across the internet yesterday that a robot killed someone in Germany. Beneath the sensationalist surface, there was a tragic truth: an…
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Elon Musk Hopes These Researchers Can Save Us from Superintelligent AI
"“I think most people are afraid of AIs that will turn against us or try to take over the world,” Peter Asaro, a New School researcher who received a grant…
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Should a Driverless Car Decide Who Lives or Dies?
"“This is going to set the tone for all social robots,” says philosopher Patrick Lin, who runs the Ethics and Emerging Sciences Group at California Polytec…
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EU‐US talks to show the road ahead for automated vehicles
"‘The Vienna Convention is not just a static document ... it exists within international structures for vehicle safety and vehicle regulation,’ said Profes…
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The Hurdles Facing Autonomous Vehicles
"“The ethics are different for humans and machines,” says Patrick Lin, a philosophy professor at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.…
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You or the pedestrian: Ethics of autonomous cars making emergency decisions to save lives
"Dr Patrick Lin, director of ethics at California Polytechnic State University, wrote in 2014 that developing such a system "seems an awful lot like a…
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Beware the Killer Robots
"However, existing legal restrictions "are inadequate to really deal with this fundamental change in technology and warfare," said Peter Asaro, a…
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Tipping Point in Transit
"“All the things that we think will happen tomorrow, like fully autonomous cars, may take a very long time,” said Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant profess…
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The Good, The Bad and The Robot: Experts Are Trying to Make Machines Be “Moral”
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington specializing in cyber law and robotics, believes that moral machines will have a deeply unsettl…