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The sunny side of the roboconomy in the Middle East
The Middle East and North Africa's youthful, fast-urbanizing population are perfectly placed to embrace technology and reap the rewards of the Fourth Industrial Revolution....
24 May 2017, by
Mauricio Zuazua
On the future of human-centered robotics
Science and technology are essential tools for innovation, and to reap their full potential, we also need to articulate and solve the many aspects of today’s global issues that are rooted in the pol...
16 May 2017, by
MIT News
Thoughts on the EU’s draft report on robotics
I was asked to write a short op-ed on the European Parliament Law Committee's recommendations on civil law rules for robotics. In the end, the piece didn't get published, so I am posting it here:...
08 May 2017, by
Alan Winfield
Does AI pose a threat to society?
Last week I had the pleasure of debating the question "does AI pose a threat to society?" with friends and colleagues Christian List, Maja Pantic and Samantha Payne. The event was organised by the B...
03 May 2017, by
Alan Winfield
Why it’s difficult to trust robots
Robots raise all kinds of concerns. They could steal our jobs, as some experts think. And if artificial intelligence grows, it might even be tempted to enslave us, or to annihilate the whole of humani...
19 April 2017, by
Joffrey Becker
The legal issues of robotics
Robots are the technology of the future. But the current legal system is incapable of handling them. This generic statement is often the premise for considerations about the possibility of awarding ri...
06 April 2017, by
Andrea Bertolini
To really help US workers, invest in robots
America’s manufacturing heyday is gone, and so are millions of jobs, lost to modernization. Despite what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin might think, the National Bureau of Economic Research and S...
31 March 2017, by
Nikolaus Correll
Artificial people: How will the law adapt to intelligent systems?
Robotics technology is no longer limited to industry. Climate Controls, 3D printers, surveillance robots, drones, household and even sex robots are entering the private market. The more autonomous the...
31 March 2017, by
Rob van den Hoven van Genderen
Asimov’s laws of robotics are not the moral guidelines they appear to be
Seventy-five years ago, the celebrated science fiction writer Isaac Asimov published a short story called Runaround. Set on Mercury, it features a sophisticated robot nicknamed Speedy that has been or...
29 March 2017, by
Tom Sorell
Should an artificial intelligence be allowed to get a patent?
Whether an A.I. ought to be granted patent rights is a timely question given the increasing proliferation of A.I. in the workplace. Examples: Daimler-Benz has tested self-driving trucks on public road...
09 March 2017, by
Ronald Yu
Artificial intelligence: Utopia or dystopia?
Artificial intelligence (AI) already plays a major role in human economies and societies, and it will play an even bigger role in the coming years. To ponder the future of AI is thus to acknowledge th...
02 March 2017, by
Margaret Boden
At what point should an intelligent machine be considered a person?
Science fiction likes to depict robots as autonomous machines, capable of making their own decisions and often expressing their own personalities. Yet we also tend to think of robots as property, and ...
22 February 2017, by
Kyle Bowyer
Legal artificial intelligence: Can it stand up in a court of law?
In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell repeatedly mentions what has become known as the “10,000-hour rule”, which states that to become world-class in any field you must devote 10,000 hours of “...
21 February 2017, by
Ronald Yu
RoboLaw: Regulating robotics (video)
What legal rights should a robot have? In this video, Polo Sant'Anna Valdera, one of the leading research centres for robotics, raises this important question. Innovation raises new legal and ethica...
14 February 2017, by
Kassie Perlongo
Quest for Roboethics: An interview with Prof. Rafael Capurro
In this interview, we invited Prof. Rafael Capurro to share his insights on past, current, and future trends in robot ethics....
14 February 2017, by
Yueh-Hsuan Weng
5 global problems that AI could help us solve
There’s a great deal of concern over artificial intelligence; what it means for our jobs, whether robots will one day replace us in the workplace, whether it will one day lead to robot wars. But cur...
10 February 2017, by
Alex Gray
Georgia and Virginia legislation for automated driving and delivery robots
How Governments Can Promote Automated Driving recommended that governments conduct "legal audits" to "identify and analyze every statute and regulation that could apply adversely or ambiguously to au...
09 February 2017, by
Bryant Walker Smith
Technical challenges in machine ethics
Machine ethics offers an alternative solution for artificial intelligence (AI) safety governance. In order to mitigate risks in human-robot interactions, robots will have to comply with humanity’s e...
08 February 2017, by
Yueh-Hsuan Weng
Artificial intelligence and ethics: Who does the thinking?
On the 15th November 2016, the IEEE’s AI and Ethics Summit posed the question: “Who does the thinking?” In a series of key-note speeches and lively panel discussions, leading technologists, leg...
27 January 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
EU needs to take the lead on regulating robots and artificial intelligence, MEPs suggest
EU rules for the fast-evolving field of robotics, for example, compliance with ethical standards and liability for accidents involving driverless cars, should be put forward by the EU Commission, urge...
16 January 2017, by
Robohub Editors
Brian Cox presents Science Matters: Machine learning and artificial intelligence
We're beginning to see more and more jobs being performed by machines, even creative tasks like writing music or painting can now be carried out by a computer.
But how and when will machines be abl...
11 January 2017, by
Robohub Editors
MIT Media Lab to participate in $27 million initiative on AI ethics and governance
The MIT Media Lab and the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University will serve as the founding anchor institutions for a new initiative aimed at bridging the gap between the ...
10 January 2017, by
MIT News
A report on the ELS Workshop 2016
The Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of Social Robots in Healthcare and Education Workshop (also called ELS Workshop) was held in Yokohama the 14th Nov 2016 during the JSAI-isAI Conference. The works...
Jibo look-alike appears on Chinese websites
For all of us who participated in the Jibo IndieGoGo crowdfunding and are anxiously awaiting delivery - which has been delayed again - this Chinese knock-off came as quite a surprise....
29 December 2016, by
Frank Tobe
Ethically Aligned Design
Having been involved in roboethics for some years, I was delighted when the IEEE launched its initiative on Ethical Considerations in AI and Autonomous Systems, early this year. Especially so because ...
27 December 2016, by
Alan Winfield
Uber must follow California’s laws
Uber is testing its self-proclaimed “self-driving” vehicles on California roads without complying with the testing requirements of California’s automated driving law. California’s Department o...
19 December 2016, by
Bryant Walker Smith
How do we regulate robo-morality?
In April 2016, British Standards Institution (BSI) published the world’s first ethical standard for the design, production, sale, and usage of social robots. “BS 8611: 2016 Robots and robotic devi...
15 December 2016, by
Yueh-Hsuan Weng
One being for two origins: A new perspective on roboethics
The concept One Being for Two Origins, from the teachings of Buddha, considers the unification of technology, nature, and human beings. It emerges from the theory of the three aspects: The values of t...
08 December 2016, by
Yueh-Hsuan Weng
Commerce announces first artificial intelligence hearing today, livestream available
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), chairman of the Subcommittee on Space, Science, and Competitiveness will convene a hearing today, 30 November, at 2:30 p.m. EST on “The Dawn of Artificial Intelligence....
30 November 2016, by
Robohub Editors
Understanding the four types of AI, from reactive robots to self-aware beings
The common, and recurring, view of the latest breakthroughs in artificial intelligence research is that sentient and intelligent machines are just on the horizon. Machines understand verbal commands, ...
30 November 2016, by
Arend Hintze
