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This Is Big: A Robo-Car Just Drove Across the Country
"“This drive is one more marker on the exciting road toward automated vehicles,” says Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at the University of Sout…
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The Path of Robotics Law
I have posted a draft of my latest essay, The Path of Robotics Law, on SSRN. Here is the abstract:This essay, written as a response to Ryan Calo's valuable…
CITP Luncheon Speaker Series: Peter Asaro – Regulating Robots: Developing Policy for Robots
CITP Luncheon Speaker Series: Peter Asaro – Regulating Robots: Challenges and Approaches to Developing Policy for Robots Robotics stands on the cusp of an ex…
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Autonomous car in the summer - but where?
Google Translation: "- Right now is the attitude of the general public as important as, or more important than, specific legal clauses, says Bryant Walker…
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Tesla Could Soon Roll Out Self-Driving Cars. Whether They're Legal Is Another Story.
"The cars could, however, be kicked off the road if regulators aren’t thrilled with the idea of autonomous vehicles roaming the country, says Bryant Walker…
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How Real-Life AI Rivals 'Terminator': Robots Take the Shot
"Militaries around the world are working on drones potentially capable of such autonomous strikes, Peter Asaro, co-founder of the InternationalCommittee fo…
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Elon Wants to Make Your Tesla Drive Itself. Is That Legal?
"The cars could, however, be kicked off the road if regulators aren’t thrilled with the idea of autonomous vehicles roaming the country, says Bryant Walker…
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The Looming Threat of Artificial Unintelligence
"“I'm worried that there could be some unanticipated, emergent phenomenon,” says Calo. “For instance, maybe it'll turn out that lots and lots of pe…
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Automated cars and AI: reasons why the tech industry must consider ethics
""Make the ethics programming in an autonomous car transparent in order to set expectations with users and society, and be able to defend those progra…
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Posting drone videos to YouTube could get you into hot water
"Ryan Calo, an assistant law professor at the University of Washington and co-director of the school's Tech Policy Lab, told Mashable said this is an &…
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Sex, Love, and Robots
"One result of this influx of robots into our bedrooms is that it may "trigger a broader role for the concept of moral harm in law," suggests Uni…
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Will You Need a New License to Operate a Self-Driving Car?
"“Today, drivers are not trained or tested for that change in control,” says Patrick Lin, director of the ethics and emerging sciences group at California…