Please note we now have two program changes: Friday and Saturday’s panels have exchanged slots: “Robot/Human Handoffs” is now on Friday; “AI & Authorship” is now on Saturday. “Toward a Comprehensive View of the Influence of Artificial Intelligence on International Affairs by Jesse Woo” (Discussant: Heather Roff) will be at 10:15 on Friday; “The Institutional […]
Today marks the start of the We Robot Workshops — a program designed to help create a common language among the very interdisciplinary groups that make up our unique community. Tomorrow and Saturday we embark on an intellectual feast as we encounter the terrific papers. A lot of people worked hard to organize this event, […]
Jason Millar will lead a discussion of Abby Everett Jaques‘s Why the Moral Machine is a Monster on Saturday, April 13, at 2:30 p.m. at #werobot 2019. The Moral Machine project, built by the MIT Media Lab’s Scalable Cooperation Group, is a game-like platform that presents users with a choice between two outcomes in a scenario in which […]
Jennifer Rhee will lead a discussion of Stephanie Ballard and Ryan Calo‘s Taking Futures Seriously: Forecasting as Method in Robotics Law and Policy on Saturday, April 13, at 9:30 a.m. at #werobot 2019. A central challenge in setting law and policy around emerging technology is predicting how technology will evolve. In failing to consider the future […]
Hideyuki Matsumi will lead a discussion of Colin P. Jones‘s Using The Robot Koseki – Using Japanese Family Law as a Model for Regulating Robots on Saturday, April 13, at 1:00 p.m. at #werobot 2019. This paper seeks to address the definitional problem of robot law – “what is a robot.” It posits that a fundamental […]
Kate Darling will lead a discussion of Sarit Mizrahi‘s Jack of All Trades, Master of None: Is Copyright Protection Justified for Robotic Faux-Originality? on Saturday, April 13, at 4:00 p.m. at #werobot 2019. The twenty-first century is credited with machines that can generate anything from poems to novels, as well as musical compositions and works of […]
Please note a program change: Friday and Saturday’s panels have exchanged slots. “Robot/Human Handoffs” is now on Friday; “AI & Authorship” is now on Saturday. Our Program Page has been revised to reflect this change.
Michael Froomkin will lead a discussion of Alicia Solow-Niederman‘s Administering Artificial Intelligence on Saturday, April 13, at 11:00 a.m. at #werobot 2019. Calls for sector-specific regulation or the creation of a federal agency or commission to guide and constrain artificial intelligence, or AI, development are increasing. This turn to administrative law is understandable because AI’s […]
Madeleine Elish will lead a discussion of Marta Bo‘s The Human/Weapon Relationship in the Age of Autonomous Weapons and the Attribution of Criminal Responsibility for War Crimes on Saturday, April 13, at 4:00 p.m. Friday, April 12, at 1:45 p.m. at #werobot 2019. This paper will inquire into how the advent of artificial intelligence in warfare […]
Kevin Bankston will lead a discussion of Robin Murphy‘s Emerging Legal and Policy Trends in Recent Robot Science Fiction on Saturday, April 13, at 8:30 a.m. at #werobot 2019. Science fiction has a long history of predicting technological advances and reflecting societal concerns or expectations. This paper examines popular print science fiction for the past five […]