Should We Fear Artificial Intelligence?
Listen to the full interview with Ryan Calo at BBC The Inquiry. Billions of dollars are pouring into the latest investor craze: artificial intelligence. But se…
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Making Sure the “Trolley Problem” Doesn’t Derail Life-Saving Innovation
"I want to highlight an important new blog post (“Slow Down That Runaway Ethical Trolley“) on the ethical trade-offs at work with autonomous vehicle system…
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Slow Down That Runaway Ethical Trolley
The runaway trolley has chased automated motor vehicles into the new year. In early 2012, I raised a variation of the classic thought experiment to argu…
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Death by Robot
"A robot’s lack of emotion is precisely what makes many people uncomfortable with the idea of trying to give it human characteristics. Death by robot is an…
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CIS Affiliates 2014-2016 Announced
We are happy to announce the new 2014-2016 CIS Affiliates. The new affiliates are the following:Affiliate ScholarsMarvin AmmoriAnnemarie BridyPeter AsaroRyan Ca…
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Lawyering Up for Autonomy - Technologue
"University of South Carolina law professor Bryant Walker Smith pointed out that the technology has the potential to reduce incidents of certain types of a…
A Robot Really Committed A Crime: Now What?
It is always fun, and sometimes worrying, to see imagination come to life. I was on a panel last year at UC Berkeley around robotics and law. We talked about so…
Why We Need a Federal Agency on Robotics
The robots are no longer coming; they are here. And the law's response has been lacking. Many believe that the Federal Aviation Administration has overstepp…
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Now, Anyone Can Buy a Drone. Heaven Help Us.
"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington who studies drones, said the troublemaking should come as no surprise. “It would be the rare t…
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Those Amazon Delivery Drones? Not So Fast
"The FAA’s planned rule “is going to be a serious limiter,” said Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor who studies robotics policy. “If they…
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Programming how self-driving cars handle dilemmas is a challenge
"“This is one of the most profoundly serious decisions we can make. Program a machine that can foreseeably lead to someone’s death,” Lin said. “When we mak…
Driverless Cars & Road Rules
"CCTV America’s Michelle Makori interviewed Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor in the School of Law and School of Engineering at the University of So…