"Ryan Calo, a law professor at the University of Washington specializing in cyber law and robotics, believes that moral machines will have a deeply unsettling effect on our legal system.
With the pervasion of the Internet into every aspect of our lives “we’ve grown accustomed to this promiscuous, loosey-goosey information eco-system in which it can be difficult to establish liability,” says Calo. “That’s going to change when it’s bones and not bits on the line. We’re going to have to strike a different balance when software can touch you.”
Calo serves on the advisory committee of the new People and Robots Initiative of CITRIS, the University of California-wide technology research center. He believes that the ability of robots to physically impact the world is just one of several issues legal experts will have to grapple with."