"It’s sure to be a heady good time. Panel titles include “Legal Personhood For Robots,” “The Ethical Characteristics of Autonomous Robots,” and the drenched-in-wordplay “Siriously? Free Speech Rights for Artificial Intelligence.” Ryan Calo, a prominent scholar out of the University of Washington School of Law, who writes and speaks about topics at this intersection, drew much attention this evening during a panel called “Robotics In American Law.” Having contributed heavily to the book Robot Law, which was launched today at the convention, he is something of a breakout star in this niche.
Peter Asaro of the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, a grassroots movement aimed at limiting a robot’s capacity to kill, gave a presentation titled “How to Engage the Public on the Ethics and Governance of Lethal Autonomous Weapons.” He muses that the media muddies the waters on conversation about lethal autonomous weapons (“killer robots”) every time they use a picture of a Terminator to illustrate a pertinent story.
As weird or emerging as the field of robot law might be, you ought to know that the U.N. is very concerned about it and has held annual meetings on the topic to tease out the complications. Asaro and his camp make their preference known clearly: no killer robots, please."
- Date Published:04/01/2016
- Original Publication:Inverse