Date published: May 7, 2013Law Technology News"Another panel addressed the proposition that user interface and user experience design need to be a "fundamental element" of legal tools if they are going to have mass market acceptance. Mar...
Date published: May 6, 2013Huffington Post
From Roombas to drones, scientists are developing machines to be more and more self-sufficient. But even if they’re programmed to do good—what happens when something goes wrong? If a robot ...
Date published: May 1, 2013The Pew Charitable Trusts""I don't think (the Boston bombing) will reframe the surveillance debate, and people will persist in their skepticism (of drones) even after this event," Calo said." Read more » a...
Date published: May 3, 2013New York Times"“I think it’s right to think about shutting down the process and saying we just can’t agree,” Mr. Mayer said. “We gave it the old college try. But sometimes you can’t reach a negotiated deal.”" R...
Date published: May 3, 2013Slate"Drones put a fine point on that sense of vulnerability, and as eminent drone theorist and law professor Ryan Calo argues, can thus be seen as "privacy catalysts" that may well precipitate more comprehensi...
Date published: May 1, 2013The Verge"Heyns cites philosopher Peter Asaro's work and says "Taking humans out of the loop also risks taking humanity out of the loop."" Read more » about Automated killer robot development should be pau...
Judge Richard Posner took the occasion of the Boston bombing to remind us of his view that privacy should lose out to other values. Privacy, argues Judge Posner, is largely about concealing truths “that, if known, would make it more dif...
Video from We Robot: Getting Down to Business
Paper: Do Robots Dream of Electric Laws? An Experiment in Law as Algorithm
Author: Greg Conti, Woodrow Hartzog
Moderator: Harry Surden Read more » about We Robot: Do Robots Dream of Electric ...
May 3, 2013Stanford Law SchoolThis Conference is cordially hosted by Stanford Law School and Peking University, and is sponsored by Tencent, China’s largest Internet company and one of the largest worldwide, and Microsoft, the largest so...
Date published: April 30, 2013Rolling Stone""I believe [LARs are] a paradigm shift because it fundamentally changes the requirements for human responsibility in making decisions to kill," says Peter Asaro, co-founder and vice chair of th...
