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Austin Airport Test Drives Autonomous Shuttle
"Bryant Walker Smith, an associate professor of law and engineering at the University of South Carolina who specializes in researching policy regarding the…
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'Sony Research Award Program' Continues for Fourth Year
""Many technology companies have joined industry initiatives on AI ethics, but Sony has taken the extra step to support independent academic study on…
Arctic 2.0: How Artificial Intelligence Can Help Develop a Frontier
Technology has an outsized impact on the modern world; it is how we have tamed our frontiers. But that role is largely ignored when it comes to the Arctic front…
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Artificial intelligence is at the heart of online toxicity, Grand Committee hears
"Ben Scott, a Stanford fellow at the Centre for Internet and Society and a former advisor to Hillary Clinton, said that it wasn’t until the tech giants got…
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The Long and Lucrative Mirage of the Driverless Car
"“You have more grounded expectations about the timeline for these technologies, combined with a lack of industry push for legislation,” says Bryant Walker…
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Driverless car industry luring federal safety brass
"But so far, many more officials have followed Strickland out of government than back into it. University of South Carolina Law School professor Bryant Wal…
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What the autonomous vehicles industry should learn from the Boeing 737 Max crisis
"Last year, AV legislation didn’t pass the US Congress. “Some senators distrusted the technologies and the developers of those technologies and the regulat…
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Policing AI: Is it a task for government, industry, consumers or all of the above?
"Data privacy is another bugaboo for AI, and University of Washington law professor Ryan Calo said the privacy debate is sparking multiple calls for tighte…
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Hackers tricked a Tesla, and it's a sign of things to come in the race to fool artificial intelligence
"Ryan Calo, co-director of the University of Washington's Tech Policy Lab, recently published a paper asking this question: "Is tricking a robot h…
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Americans Still Don't Trust Self-Driving Cars, Reuters/Ipsos Poll Finds
"Self-driving expert Bryant Walker Smith, a law professor at the University of South Carolina, said a number of companies “don’t actually want to sell peop…
President Trump and the Myth of American AI
On February 11, 2019, the President of the United States signed an Executive Order (EO) directing the federal government to promote artificial intelligence (AI)…
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Volvo says driver-facing cameras are key to cutting crashes
"Bryant Walker Smith, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law, says a car intervening and taking over control raises quest…