Drone-Ethics Briefing: What a Leading Robot Expert Told the CIA (Atlantic Monthly) Great discussion of the ethics and legality of using robots, AI, and robotics in national defense. The most interesting thought in the piece: Does the prohibition of torture under international law change if a soldier can resist pain through microrobotics?
Can Loving a Robot Lead to Divorce? (HuffingtonPost)– Get ready for the federal Defense of Marriage Act of 2025, making it illegal to marry a sexbot. Is more morally acceptable to marry a robot than a sexbot?
Siri – The Horror Movie – Hard to say who exactly is liable here. I’d have to revisit the famous torts case Freddy v. Jason.
Wednesday, December 28, 2011
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Law of Robots Links for Wednesday 12-14-11
How Technology Will Test the Constitution (www.nextgov.com) - Amidst a discussion of technology’s effect on law in the year 2030, Notre Dame Professor O. Carter Snead notes that we are combining with our phones and portable devices to become “cyborgs.” He worries that the part of us encapsulated in our phones does not currently have constitutional rights. Personally, my Blackberry is too contentious already. The last thing it needs is the Second Amendment.
Drones deployed in US for domestic law enforcement (The Robot State) - In some ways, Minority Report was a freakishly prescient movie:
Majel may be Google’s answer to Siri? (www.washingtonpost.com) - Here's a topic that's been on my to-do list since Siri was released: If a musician asks Siri a question and then samples Siri's response in a hit single, who gets the sample's royalty and who authorizes the sample's use?
Drones deployed in US for domestic law enforcement (The Robot State) - In some ways, Minority Report was a freakishly prescient movie:
Majel may be Google’s answer to Siri? (www.washingtonpost.com) - Here's a topic that's been on my to-do list since Siri was released: If a musician asks Siri a question and then samples Siri's response in a hit single, who gets the sample's royalty and who authorizes the sample's use?
Sunday, December 11, 2011
Law of Robots Links for Monday 12-12-11
Conference on Robots and the Law - Legal practitioners and scholars decide to embrace their Sci Fi side by riffing on Asimov, calling their symposium "We Robot."
Developing Robots to Be Soldiers - My guess is that I will discuss the perils of Battlestar Galactica multiple times in this blog.
"She Feels as Real as My Real Girlfriend" - Which begs the question - Is your "real" girlfriend also imaginary? Will we eventually have public policy debates regarding whether marriage includes the union between a man and his non-living partner? Oh wait...
Developing Robots to Be Soldiers - My guess is that I will discuss the perils of Battlestar Galactica multiple times in this blog.
"She Feels as Real as My Real Girlfriend" - Which begs the question - Is your "real" girlfriend also imaginary? Will we eventually have public policy debates regarding whether marriage includes the union between a man and his non-living partner? Oh wait...
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