Legal Commentary

Legal Challenges in an Age of Robotics

By Kenneth Anderson

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.)

Click here to view the embedded video.

Full post as published by The Volokh Conspiracy on February 08, 2010 (boomark / email).