Laws

The more Americans know about drones, the less they like them | Reason.com

CIS Blog 27 Mar 2013

In an influential 2011 article, "The Drone as Privacy Catalyst," law professor Ryan Calo predicted that the dystopian images that drones evoke could spur much-needed reforms to American privacy law. ...

VLAB: Drones – The commercial era takes off, but breaking the law is going to blow-up in our faces

Robert Morris 26 Mar 2013

Last Tuesday I had the pleasure of attending VLAB: Drones – The Commercial Era Takes Off at Stanford GSB. The event was truly fantastic and the panel was amazing. The moderator was Chris Anderson,...

The future of drones in America: Law enforcement and privacy considerations

CIS Blog 25 Mar 2013

Last week the US Senate Committee on the Judiciary heard from witnesses Benjamin Miller, Amie Stepanovich, Michael Tosocano and Prof. Ryan Calo on “The Future of Drones in America: Law Enforcement...

Senators told current laws may offer little shield against drones | New York Times

CIS Blog 25 Mar 2013

"There’s very little in American privacy law that wouldlimit the use of drones for surveillance,” said one witness, Ryan Calo, an assistant professor at the University of Washington School of Law....

How will robots shape the future of warfare?

RBI Editors 15 Mar 2013

Updated March 17, 2013 | This month we've asked our experts to weigh in on the future of robotics in warfare, and the broadness of this topic has prompted some of our panelists to push back and reques...

Mark Tilden on “How will robots shape the future of warfare?”

Mark Tilden 13 Mar 2013

Robot machines have been shaping the future of war since the first siege engines appeared in ancient times (I like to think the Trojan Horse was motorized). Now with technology significantly exten...

Raffaello D’Andrea on “How will robots shape the future of warfare?”

Raffaello D'Andrea 13 Mar 2013

How will robots shape the future of war? I don’t know. I think that the more important question, however, is: what role should robots have in warfare? In my answer I have tried (as much as is h...

Who’s liable when a driverless car crashes? | NPR

CIS Blog 12 Mar 2013

It's absolutely the case that after the first accident involving an automated vehicle, there will be an automated ambulance chaser following. - Robert Hartwig, president of the Insurance Informati...

Giving rights to robots, with Kate Darling

Podcast team 08 Mar 2013

Link to audio file (22:47) In this episode, we talk with Kate Darling from the MIT Media Lab, about giving rights to social robots. She tells us about a recent Pleo torture session she organized at...

The death of search (or, My dysfunctional relationship with Siri)

Mark Stephen Meadows 06 Mar 2013

This article looks at the arrival of systems such as Siri, Google Now, and Watson and claims that these systems are the search engines of the next decade because they mine intimate data. Since they ...