Do We Need New Laws for Rise of the Robots?

Do We Need New Laws for Rise of the Robots?
"The widespread distribution of robotics in society will, like the internet, create deep social, cultural, economic, and of course legal tensions," says Ryan Calo. Ben Husmann/CC BY 2.0
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Robotics is shaping up to be the next transformative technology of our time, says legal expert Ryan Calo, who argues in a new paper that we need laws to deal with the rise of robotics and artificial intelligence.

“Technology has not stood still. The same private institutions that developed the internet, from the armed forces to search engines, have initiated a significant shift toward robotics and artificial intelligence,” writes Calo, assistant professor in the School of Law at University of Washington.