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Driverless Cars Are Likely to Get Boost From DOT Ruling
""Connected cars aren't the same thing as automated cars, but at some point they converge," says Bryant Walker Smith, a lecturer at Stanford…
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US privacy violations among legal concerns of FBI drone usage
FBI Director Robert Mueller’s admission of domestic drone use by the agency has raised red flags among privacy advocates and anti-drone activists and has surpri…
Armed Military Robots: Editorial
Altmann, J., P. Asaro, N. Sharkey, and R. Sparrow (2013). “ Armed Military Robots: Editorial,” Ethics and Information Technology 15 (2), June 2013, pp. 73-76.…
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Legally Speaking: Teaching what matters
"Bryant Walker-Smith who teaches the “Autonomous Driving” class at Stanford describes it as a way to teach torts using modern automotive class action suits…
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Meet the Man Behind the Push to Ban Killer Robots
"To bring clearer into focus the backdrop of killer robots and the threat they pose, I talked to Peter Asaro, co-founder of the International Committee for…
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What driverless car entrepreneurs can learn from the aviation industry
"‘The biggest legal question is the fact that there are questions,’ says Bryant Walker Smith, a fellow at the Centre for Internet and Society at Stanford U…
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Human rights experts, activists push for ban on 'killer robots'
"M. Ryan Calo, a University of Washington law professor with expertise in robotics and data security, notes that there are upsides to robotic warfare, like…
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Roadmap for Driverless Cars: Five Highlights
"Bryant Walker Smith, a lecturer at Stanford Law School who studies driverless vehicles, said there’s still no consensus on how we’ll know these cars are s…
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The Pros and Cons of Killer Robots
"“Autonomous systems interacting with each other competitively can escalate quickly and unpredictably,“ says Dr. Peter Asaro, a philosopher of science at t…
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Self-Driving Cars for Testing Are Supported by U.S.
"Even though technology companies like Google generally fear that innovation far outpaces regulation and risks being stifled by it, it has a different appr…
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UN reports on lack of 'moral responsibility' inherent in using 'killer robots'
"On Wednesday, May 29th in Geneva, Switzerland, a United Nations report will be presented on the moral problems of using autonomous weapons (or "kille…
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Uncertain Liability
"Will lawsuits kill the autonomous car?" That's a dramatic expression of a common question. (And one to which Twitter has a short retort.) Here’s…