"Robots in American Law"
by Ryan Calo
February 24, 2016
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"Robots in American Law"
by Ryan Calo
February 24, 2016
Article "3 times humans have sued their robot impostors — and won"
by Rafi Letzter
March 4, 2016
989 F.2d 1512 (1993)
Vanna WHITE, Plaintiff-Appellant,
v.
SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS AMERICA, INC.; David Deutsch Associates, Defendants-Appellees.
No. 90-55840.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
March 18, 1993.
Article "American law needs a reboot when it comes to robots"
by Hallie Siegel
March 5, 2016
Article "When a Robot Kills, Is It Murder or Product Liability?"
An expert on robotics law responds to Paolo Bacigalupi’s short story “Mika Model.”
by Ryan Calo
April 26, 2016
“Mika Model”
A new short story from sci-fi great Paolo Bacigalupi.
by Paolo Bacigalupi
April 26, 2016
https://youtu.be/EYk9nlaIWzc
The ethics of A.I. on the battlefield is less clear-cut than you might think
Published on May 30, 2016
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Transcript - Everybody’s concerned about killer robots. We should ban them. We shouldn’t do any research into them. It may be unethical to do so. There’s a wonderful paper in fact by a professor at the post naval graduate school in Monterrey I believe, B.J. Strawser. I believe the title is the moral requirement to deploy autonomous drones. And his basic point in that is really pretty straightforward. We have obligations to our military forces to protect them and things that we can do which may protect them. A failure to do that is itself an ethical decision which may cause – may be the wrong thing to do if you have technologies.
So let me give you an interesting scale that whole thing down to show you this doesn’t have to be about terminator like robots coming in and shooting at people and things like that. Think about a landmine. Now a landmine has a sensor, a little switch. You step on it and it blows up. There’s a sensor, there’s an action that’s taken as a result of a change in its environment. Now it’s a fairly straightforward matter to take some artificial intelligence technologies right off the shelf today and just put a little camera on that. It’s not expensive, same kind you have in your cell phone. There’s a little bit of processing power that could look at what’s actually happening around that landmine. And you might think well okay, I can see that the person who is nearby me is carrying a gun. I can see that they’re wearing a military uniform so I’m going to blow up. But if you see it’s just some peasant out in a field with a rake or a hoe we can avoid blowing up under the circumstances. Oh, that’s a child. I don’t want to blow up. I’m begin stepped on by an animal. Okay, I’m not going to blow up. Now that is an autonomous military technology of just the sort that there was a recent letter signed by a great many scientists. This falls into that class.
And in the emerging that devices like that be banned. But I give this as an example of the device for which there’s a good argument that if we can’t deploy that technology it’s more humane, it’s more targeted and it’s more ethical to do so. Now that isn’t always the case. My point is not that that’s right and you should just go ahead willy nilly and develop killer robots. My point is this is a much more subtle area which requires considerable more thought and research. And we should let the people who are working on it think through these problems and make sure that they understand the kinds of sensitivities and concerns that we have as a society about the use and deployment of these types of technologies.
https://youtu.be/LuqLEx7gAOE
How to build a moral robot
Published on May 31, 2016
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If robots are going to drive our cars and play with our kids, we’ll need to teach them right from wrong. Here's how a group of scientists plans to build moral machines.
Article "Google’s developing its own version of the Laws of Robotics"
by Graham Templeton
June 10, 2016
https://youtu.be/bPYJgPS_6p8
Mingis on Tech: The ethics of self-driving cars -- and killer robots
Published on Jun 30, 2016
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If your autonomous car has to decide who lives -- you or the people it's heading for on the highway -- who should it save? Executive Editor Ken Mingis, Senior Writer Lucas Mearian and Multimedia Editor Keith Shaw drive the conversation.
Article "How Tech Giants Are Devising Real Ethics for Artificial Intelligence"
by John Markoff
September 1, 2016
Article "Do no harm, don't discriminate: official guidance issued on robot ethics"
Robot deception, addiction and possibility of AIs exceeding their remits noted as hazards that manufacturers should consider
by Hannah Devlin
September 18, 2016