Governing AI
Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly pervasive and essential to everyday life, enabling apps and various smart devices to autonomous vehicles…
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Report on Uber crash questions testing of self-driving cars
"Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who studies autonomous vehicles, said Uber's system wasn't ready for testing on…
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The top 3 companies in autonomous vehicles and self-driving cars
"Imagine: After a long flight home from a conference, you walk outside to the airport's ground transportation and are met by an airport shuttle, which…
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‘Terminator’ is back! AI experts do a reality check on Hollywood’s new robo-nightmare
"GeekWire: Did the producers and writers and the rest of the team behind “Terminator” learn anything since the earlier films? Carissa Schoenick: “Yeah … S…
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As AI joins battlefield, Pentagon seeks ethicist
"Having an ethicist might help mediate some of these tensions, depending on how much power they have, says Patrick Lin, a philosophy professor specializing…
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Florida Claims to be a Driverless Car Paradise. Critics Call It a Lawless Mess
"“What sets Florida apart is the number of laws,” says Bryant Walker Smith, a professor of law who studies AVs at the University of South Carolina. Walker…
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The Worlds That AI Might Create
"A simple example most of us can identify with: Using GPS for directions can reduce our ability to find our way around. “I used to pride myself on being ab…
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Now your Tesla can come pick you up. California says that’s not ‘driverless’
"“The law is flexible, and a lot of this comes down to how does government feel about these technologies, and equally important, how does government feel a…
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The Pentagon is looking for an AI ethicist
"Patrick Lin, the director of the ethics and emerging sciences board at California Polytechnic State University, told FCW that private-sector employee prot…
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3 Easy Ways to Evaluate AI Claims
"“AI has no well-defined meaning and many so-called AI companies are simply trying to take advantage of the buzz around that term,” says Arvind Narayanan,…
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Tesla has a huge incentive to deploy self-driving tech. But is the world ready?
"Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina who specialises in autonomous driving, agrees. "The technical definition of…
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Will Brooklyn's New Autonomous Cars 'Turn Us Back To The 1950s'?
"According to Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina whose research focuses on autonomous vehicles, a wide gulf between s…