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Helping or hacking? Engineers and ethicists must work together on brain-computer interface technology
A subject plays a computer game as part of a neural security experiment at the University of Washington.
Patrick Bennett, CC BY-ND
By Eran Klein, University of Washington and Katherine Pratt, Unive...
22 June 2017, by
The Conversation
Thought leadership in social sector robotics
WeRobotics Global has become a premier forum for social good robotics. The feedback featured below was unsolicited. On June 1, 2017, we convened our first, annual global event, bringing together 34...
20 June 2017, by
Patrick Meier
No more playing games: AlphaGo AI to tackle some real world challenges
Humankind lost another important battle with artificial intelligence (AI) last month when AlphaGo beat the world’s leading Go player Ke Jie by three games to zero.
AlphaGo is an AI program develo...
08 June 2017, by
Geoff Goodhill
AI for Good Global Summit welcomes “new frontier” for sustainable development
The world's brightest minds in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and humanitarian action will meet with industry leaders and academia at the AI for Good Global Summit, 7-9 June 2017, to discuss how AI will...
07 June 2017, by
Robohub Editors
The Uncanny Valley of human-robot interactions
The device named “Spark” flew high above the man on stage with his hands waving in the direction of the flying object. In a demonstration of DJI’s newest drone, the audience marveled at the Cok...
02 June 2017, by
Oliver Mitchell
Europe regulates robotics: Summer school brings together researchers and experts in robotics
After a successful 2016 first edition, our next summer school cohort on The Regulation of Robotics in Europe: Legal, Ethical and Economic Implications will take place in Pisa at the Scuola Sant’An...
01 June 2017, by
Andrea Bertolini
Artificial intelligence: Europe needs a “human in command approach,” says EESC
The EU must pursue a policy that ensures the development, deployment and use of artificial intelligence (AI) in Europe in favor, and not conducive to the detriment, acts of society and social welfare,...
01 June 2017, by
European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
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
Choreographing automated cars could save time, money and lives
If you take humans out of the driving seat, could traffic jams, accidents and high fuel bills become a thing of the past? As cars become more automated and connected, attention is turning to how to be...
15 March 2017, by
Horizon Magazine
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
Drones for good 2.0: How WeRobotics is redefining the use of unmanned systems in developing countries
Robotics undoubtedly has the potential to improve lives in the developing world. However, with limited budgets and expertise on the ground, putting this technology in place is no small task. Step forw...
22 February 2017, by
Waypoint
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
The infrastructure of life part 2: Transparency
Part 2: Autonomous Systems and Transparency
In my previous post I argued that a wide range of AI and Autonomous Systems (from now on I will just use the term AS as shorthand for both) should be reg...
03 February 2017, by
Alan Winfield
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
Responsive and Responsible Leadership given prominance at #WEF17 World Economic Forum
The population of the scenic ski-resort Davos, nestled in the Swiss Alps, swelled by nearly +3,000 people between the 17th and 20th of January. World leaders, academics, business tycoons, press and in...
20 January 2017, by
Alex Kirkpatrick
