by Greg Miller, Wired
July 17, 2014
The robots are coming, and they’re getting smarter. They’re
evolving from single-task devices like Roomba and its
floor-mopping, pool-cleaning cousins into machines that can
make their own decisions and autonomously navigate public
spaces. Thanks to artificial intelligence, machines are
getting better at understanding our speech and detecting and
reflecting our emotions. In many ways, they’re becoming more
like us.
Whether you find it exhilarating or terrifying (or both),
progress in robotics and related fields like AI is raising new
ethical quandaries and challenging legal codes that were
created for a world in which a sharp line separates man from
machine. Last week, roboticists, legal scholars, and other
experts met at the University of California, Berkeley law
school to talk through some of the social, moral, and legal
hazards that are likely to arise as that line starts to blur.
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