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?

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