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Last fall I was on a great panel at Stanford Law School on robotics and the law.  It had great people on it – Dan Siciliano, Paul Saffo, and Ryan Calo.  Great discussion; one of the things it brought home to me, as someone who came to law-and-robotics issues from laws of war questions, was how much those issues have cognates in other areas of emerging robotics, such as elder-care.  The panel discussion is up on video here:

Legal Challenges in an Age of Robotics, November 12, 2009.  One of the things I really liked about this panel was the way that Ryan Calo served as a very active moderator – he’s an expert in these issues himself, and so was able to lead the discussion, including the audience discussion.  The best parts are actually Dan Siciliano and Paul Saffo; I was a little unsure of how much the audience knew about the battlefield issues, and had too much wind-up.

(Ryan has also written very interesting stuff on privacy and technology.)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P021944l2LA[/youtube]

Categories: Robotics    

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    4. M. Report says:

      Science Fiction has rung all the changes
      on the topic, in some cases so long ago
      that the seminal stories have been forgotten;
      I read Murray Leinster’s “A Logic Called Joe’
      when it first came out.

      February 8, 2010, 7:00 pm

    5. Elia Moscrip says:

      I was checking if you have the link for the article?

      February 8, 2010, 10:48 pm

    6. mark willoughby says:

      here’s a link on a Lawsuit v NSA over mining data…linked to Ryan calo paper “people can be so fake”,tried to get this to Ryan but can’t find an email??….mark willoughby richmond va times dispatch…http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/opinion/columnists/article/ED-HINKLE09_20100208-172603/322959/

      February 9, 2010, 4:33 pm