MEPs vote on robots’ legal status – and if a kill switch is required | BBC News

by Alex Kirkpatrick

13 January 2017

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MEPs have called for the adoption of comprehensive rules for how humans will interact with artificial intelligence and robots. The report makes it clear that it believes the world is on the cusp of a “new industrial” robot revolution. It looks at whether to give robots legal status as “electronic persons”.

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