Robots Are People Too: How Siri, Google Car, and Artificial Intelligence Will Force Us to Change Our Laws
The only book of its kind to look at how our legal system needs to change to accommodate a world in which machines, in addition to people, make decisions.

For years, robots were solely a matter of science fiction. Today, artificial intelligence technologies serve to accelerate our already fast-paced lives even further. From Apple's Siri to the Google Car to GPS, machines and technologies that make decisions and take action without direct human supervision have become commonplace in our daily lives. As a result, laws must be amended to protect companies that produce robots and the people that buy and use them. This book provides an extensive examination of how numerous legal areas—including liability, traffic, zoning, and international and constitutional law—must adapt to the widespread use of artificial intelligence in nearly every area of our society. The author scrutinizes the laws governing such fields as transportation, medicine, law enforcement, childcare, and real estate development.

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Robots Are People Too: How Siri, Google Car, and Artificial Intelligence Will Force Us to Change Our Laws
The only book of its kind to look at how our legal system needs to change to accommodate a world in which machines, in addition to people, make decisions.

For years, robots were solely a matter of science fiction. Today, artificial intelligence technologies serve to accelerate our already fast-paced lives even further. From Apple's Siri to the Google Car to GPS, machines and technologies that make decisions and take action without direct human supervision have become commonplace in our daily lives. As a result, laws must be amended to protect companies that produce robots and the people that buy and use them. This book provides an extensive examination of how numerous legal areas—including liability, traffic, zoning, and international and constitutional law—must adapt to the widespread use of artificial intelligence in nearly every area of our society. The author scrutinizes the laws governing such fields as transportation, medicine, law enforcement, childcare, and real estate development.

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Robots Are People Too: How Siri, Google Car, and Artificial Intelligence Will Force Us to Change Our Laws

Robots Are People Too: How Siri, Google Car, and Artificial Intelligence Will Force Us to Change Our Laws

by John Frank Weaver
Robots Are People Too: How Siri, Google Car, and Artificial Intelligence Will Force Us to Change Our Laws

Robots Are People Too: How Siri, Google Car, and Artificial Intelligence Will Force Us to Change Our Laws

by John Frank Weaver

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The only book of its kind to look at how our legal system needs to change to accommodate a world in which machines, in addition to people, make decisions.

For years, robots were solely a matter of science fiction. Today, artificial intelligence technologies serve to accelerate our already fast-paced lives even further. From Apple's Siri to the Google Car to GPS, machines and technologies that make decisions and take action without direct human supervision have become commonplace in our daily lives. As a result, laws must be amended to protect companies that produce robots and the people that buy and use them. This book provides an extensive examination of how numerous legal areas—including liability, traffic, zoning, and international and constitutional law—must adapt to the widespread use of artificial intelligence in nearly every area of our society. The author scrutinizes the laws governing such fields as transportation, medicine, law enforcement, childcare, and real estate development.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781440829451
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 11/26/2013
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 6.20(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

John Frank Weaver is an attorney with McLane, Graf, Raulerson, and Middleton in Portsmouth, NH.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Part I May a Robot Hurt a Human Being?
1 It's Not What Isaac Asimov Promised, but Artificial Intelligence Is Here
2 How to Sue a Robot: Liability and AI
Part II Must a Robot Obey Orders from a Human Being?
3 The Uniform Artificial Intelligence Act and the Regulation of AI
4 In Robots Parentis: When Robots Have Custody of a Child (or an Adult)
5 RIMBY (Robots in My Backyard)
6 AI and the Fourth Amendment
7 The Forthcoming United Nations Conventions on Artificial Intelligence
Part III Will a Robot Protect Itself?
8 What Does a Robot Own?
9 Can AI Be Good for Us?
Notes
Index

What People are Saying About This

P. W. Singer

"The questions raised by robots' rise will seem like they are from science fiction, but they are becoming all too real. In Robots Are People Too, John Frank Weaver tackles the legal side of this fascinating new story, from what happens when driverless cars get into an accident to fundamental questions that are being raised for the Constitution itself."

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