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Why it is not possible to regulate robots | The Guardian


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02 April 2014



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Is there such a thing as a robot? An excellent paper by Ryan Calo proposes that there is such a thing as a robot, and that, moreover, many of the thorniest, most interesting legal problems on our horizon will involve them.



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