Robots are people too : how Siri, Google Car, and artificial intelligence will force us to change our laws /

Weaver, John Frank.

Robots are people too : how Siri, Google Car, and artificial intelligence will force us to change our laws / John Frank Weaver. - ix, 234 pages ; 25 cm

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

May a robot hurt a human being? -- It's not what Isaac Asimov promised, but artificial intelligence if here -- How to sue a robot: liability and AI -- Must a robot obey orders from a human being? -- The Uniform Artificial intelligence Act and the regulation of AI -- In Robots Parentis: when robots have custody of a child (or an adult) -- RIMBY (Robots in My Backyard) -- AI and the fourth amendment -- The forthcoming United Nations conventions on artificial intelligence -- Will a robot protect itself? -- What does a robot own? -- Can AI be good for us?

"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"-- "Please see the attached txt. file"--

9781440829451 (hardback) 1440829454 (hardback)

2013023469


Artificial intelligence--Social aspects.
Artificial intelligence--Law and legislation.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Robotics.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Social Aspects.

Q335 / .W386 2014

343.09/99