Noam Kolt will present his paper, Predicting Consumer Contracts, on Saturday, September 25th at 1:30pm at #werobot 2021. Meg Mitchell will lead the discussion. This paper empirically examines whether a computational language model can read and understand consumer contracts. Language models are able to perform a wide range of complex tasks by predicting the next […]
Abeba Birhane, Jelle van Dijk, and Frank Pasquale will present their paper, Debunking Robot Rights: Metaphysically, Ethically and Legally, on Saturday, September 25th at 10:00am at #werobot 2021. Deb Raji will lead the discussion. In this work we challenge the argument for robot rights on metaphysical, ethical and legal grounds. Metaphysically, we argue that machines are not […]
Katie Szilagyi, Jason Millar, Ajung Moon, and Shalaleh Rismani will present their paper, Driving Into the Loop: Mapping Automation Bias & Liability Issues for Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, on Friday, September 24th at 5:15pm at #werobot 2021. Meg Leta Jones will lead the discussion. Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) are transforming the modern driving experience with […]
Vicky Charisi, Urs Gasser, Randy Gomez, and Selma Šabanović will present their paper, Social Robots and Children’s Fundamental Rights: A Dynamic Four-Component Framework for Research, Development, and Policy, on Friday, September 24th at #werobot 2021. Veronica Ahumada-Newhart will lead the discussion at 3:45pm. Social robotics now reach vulnerable populations, notably children, who are in a critical period of […]
Cindy Grimm and Kristen Thomasen will present their paper, On the Practicalities of Robots in Public Spaces, on Friday, September 24th at #werobot 2021. Edward Tunstel will lead the 1:45pm – 3:15pm panel on Field Robotics.There has been recent debate over how to regulate autonomous robots that enter into spaces where they must interact with members of […]
Jeremy de Beer, Laura Foster, Chidi Oguamanam, Katie Szilagyi, and Angeline Wairegi will present their paper, Smart Farming and Governing AI in East Africa: Taking Gendered Relations and Vegetal Beings into Account, on Friday, September 24th at #werobot 2021. Edward Tunstel will moderate the 1:45pm – 3:15pm panel on Field Robotics. Robots are on their way to East African […]
Annie Brett will present her paper, Robots in the Ocean, on Friday, September 24th at #werobot 2021. Edward Tunstel will lead the 1:45pm – 3:15pm panel on Field Robotics. Academics (and particularly legal academics) have not paid much attention to robots in the ocean. The small amount of existing work is focused on relatively narrow […]
Alice Xiang will present her paper, Being “Seen” vs. “Mis-seen”: Tensions Between Privacy and Fairness in Computer Vision, on Friday, September 24th at 11:30am at #werobot 2021. Daniel Susser will lead the discussion. The rise of AI technologies has caused growing anxiety that AI may create mass surveillance systems and entrench societal biases. Major facial […]
Elizabeth Kumar, Andrew Selbst, and Suresh Venkatasubramanian will present their paper, The Legal Construction of Black Boxes, on Saturday, September 25th at 10:00am at #werobot 2021. Ryan Calo will lead the discussion. Abstraction is a fundamental technique in computer science. Formal abstraction treats a system as defined entirely by its inputs, outputs, and the relationship that transforms inputs […]
We Robot 2021 is proud to celebrate its 10th anniversary at the University of Miami School of Law. We have changed the dates to Sept. 23-25, 2021. We hope you will join us live, but we’re making plans for a virtual backup (or even perhaps….parallel….just in case.) More info …. soonish….