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"The Criminal Liability of Artificial Intelligence Entities"

By Adam Kolber

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"The Criminal Liability of Artificial Intelligence Entities" 

GABRIEL HALLEVY, Ono Academic College, Faculty of Law
In 1981, a 37-year-old Japanese employee of a motorcycle factory was killed by an artificial-intelligence robot working near him. The robot erroneously identified the employee as a threat to its mission, and calculated that the most efficient way to eliminate this threat was by pushing him into an adjacent operating machine. Using its very powerful hydraulic arm, the robot smashed the surprised worker into the operating machine, killing him instantly, and then resumed its duties with no one to interfere with its mission. Unfortunately, this is not science fiction, and the legal question is: Who is to be held liable for this killing?

Full post as published by Neuroethics and Law on April 20, 2010 (boomark / email).

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