New autonomous cars could ease and complicate the future of driving
CCTV America’s Michelle Makori interviewed Bryant Walker Smith, assistant professor in the School of Law and School of Engineering at the University of South Ca…
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Why Government Doesn’t Get Tech
"Ryan Calo, who teaches law at the University of Washington, worries about a lack of government resources. “There isn’t enough technical expertise in gover…
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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…
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Gov’t board: Like a drone, your RC aircraft is regulated by law, so pay up
"Ryan Calo, an expert in drone law at the University of Washington, said that he was not surprised that the decision was reversed. But he thought that Pirk…
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Fearing Bombs That Can Pick Whom to Kill
"“Our concern is with how the targets are determined, and more importantly who determines them,” said Peter Asaro, a co-founder and vice chairman of the In…
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Your Car May Be Programmed to Kill You — and 9 More Fun Facts About Self-Driving Vehicles
"“It’s one thing for a human to steer her car off a cliff and quite another thing for a machine to make that choice,” Lin says. “It’s also one thing for pe…
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The Legal Challenges of Robotics
"We are entering the age of robotics. Robots will soon be assisting us in our homes; stacking our warehouses; driving our cars; delivering our Amazon purch…
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Navigating the roadblocks
"“For the trucking industry, the risk is magnified: we’re no longer talking about two-tonne vehicles of steel and glass, but up to 40-tonne vehicles that m…
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REMINDER: We Robot abstracts due Nov. 3
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The Sky’s the Limit
"“We make this video viral because we’re projecting our fear of surveillance or the idea that these robotic systems are unnatural or creepy,” Asaro added.…
A Horse of a Different Color
Cross-posted from Slate. In the early days of dot-com, the law found the Internet unsettling. That a buyer in one location could access the website of a seller…
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This Military Robotics Company Vows To Never Make A Killer Robot
"Peter Asaro, vice-chair of the International Committee for Robot Arms Control, notes that companies like Google are thinking about the issue of ethics for…