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Robots: their rights and legal status
"Ryan Calo: I think that there are three key differences between robotics and the technologies that preceded robotics. Antony Funnell: Professor Ryan Calo…
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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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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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Robotic Justice
From Roombas to drones, scientists are developing machines to be more and more self-sufficient. But even if they’re programmed to do good—what happens when some…
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Automated killer robot development should be paused, says UN report
"Heyns cites philosopher Peter Asaro's work and says "Taking humans out of the loop also risks taking humanity out of the loop."" * Da…
We Robot: Do Robots Dream of Electric Laws? An Experiment in Law as Algorithm
Video from We Robot: Getting Down to Business Paper: Do Robots Dream of Electric Laws? An Experiment in Law as Algorithm Author: Greg Conti, Woodrow Hartzog…
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Will lawsuits kill the autonomous car?
"But Bryant Smith, a resident fellow at the Stanford Center for Internet and Society, questioned whether it was "appropriate to have a federal legisla…
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Rise of robots means rethinking our laws
"Similarly compelling questions came from Bryant Walker Smith, a Stanford fellow focused on law and policy related to driverless cars like the one being de…
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If you hate red-light cameras, you’ll really hate speeding ticket robots
"“If anyone thinks it is a simple thing to do, to take a simple law [and convert it to machine-readable code], it is significantly more complicated than on…
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Robot car enthusiasts worry about new threat: lawyers
""Is it appropriate to have a federal legislative response to the liability question?" said Bryant Smith, a resident fellow at the Stanford Cente…
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Robot Wars: With The Technology In Place, Inventors Examine Legal Hurdles
"Ryan Calo of the University of Washington law school proposes that Congress allow the kind of selective immunity seen in firearm manufacturing - an immuni…
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New robots in the workplace: Job creators or job terminators?
"“There will certainly be winners and losers,” said Ryan Calo, a professor of law at the University of Washington who focuses on robotics and public policy…