TY - GEN
T1 - How the law will think about robots (and why you should care)
AU - Smart, William D.
AU - Richards, Neil M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 IEEE.
PY - 2015/1/23
Y1 - 2015/1/23
N2 - As robots and robotic devices begin to enter our everyday lives in the coming years, legislation will be written to govern them. This legislation will typically not be written by robot-savvy technologists. It will be written and passed by lawyers and legal scholar, based on their understanding of what a robot is, and what it can do. How we talk to lawmakers about robots and robotics technologies will have a profound impact on what laws are passed and on the legal frameworks that emerge. In this paper, we argue that we must be careful about the metaphors we use to describe our systems when talking to lawmakers, and draw some parallels from the now well-established field of cyberlaw. We briefly discuss what it means to 'think like a lawyer', and show how using different metaphors for our systems could lead to radically different legislation being passed. Finally, we describe and discuss what we call the Android Fallacy; the pitfall of thinking about robots as anything other than (potentially very sophisticated) deterministic machines.
AB - As robots and robotic devices begin to enter our everyday lives in the coming years, legislation will be written to govern them. This legislation will typically not be written by robot-savvy technologists. It will be written and passed by lawyers and legal scholar, based on their understanding of what a robot is, and what it can do. How we talk to lawmakers about robots and robotics technologies will have a profound impact on what laws are passed and on the legal frameworks that emerge. In this paper, we argue that we must be careful about the metaphors we use to describe our systems when talking to lawmakers, and draw some parallels from the now well-established field of cyberlaw. We briefly discuss what it means to 'think like a lawyer', and show how using different metaphors for our systems could lead to radically different legislation being passed. Finally, we describe and discuss what we call the Android Fallacy; the pitfall of thinking about robots as anything other than (potentially very sophisticated) deterministic machines.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84937437919
U2 - 10.1109/ARSO.2014.7020979
DO - 10.1109/ARSO.2014.7020979
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84937437919
T3 - Proceedings of IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, ARSO
SP - 50
EP - 55
BT - ARSO 2014 - Workshop Digest, IEEE International Workshop on Advance Robotics and its Social Impacts
A2 - Admoni, Henny
A2 - Asfour, Tamim
A2 - Bethel, Cindy
A2 - Bourne, David
A2 - Dragan, Anca
A2 - Feil-Seifer, David
A2 - Graf, Birgit
A2 - Han, Jeonghye
A2 - Kirchner, Nathan
A2 - Konyo, Masashi
A2 - Kotosaka, Shinya
A2 - Kwak, Sonya
A2 - Liu, Changchun
A2 - MacDonald, Bruce
A2 - Sabanovic, Selma
A2 - Salvini, Pericle
A2 - Scherer, Sebastian
A2 - Shiomi, Masahiro
A2 - Teti, Giancarlo
A2 - Tully, Stephen
A2 - Vanderborght, Bram
A2 - Wada, Kazuyoshi
A2 - Wrede, Britta
A2 - Zhang, Fumin
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 9th IEEE International Workshop on Advance Robotics and its Social Impacts, ARSO 2014
Y2 - 11 September 2014 through 13 September 2014
ER -