Panel on Robots
This Thursday, 12 November, the Stanford Law School will host a panel about robots and the law. Of course, the question I’m wondering about is whether we are giving the robots too much power, but that doesn’t seem to be on the agenda this Thursday at 6:30 in room 190 of the Law School (with a reception at 5:30 in the Student Lounge):
Once relegated to factories and fiction, robots are rapidly entering the
mainstream. Advances in artificial intelligence translate into
ever-broadening functionality and autonomy. Recent years have seen an
explosion in the use of robotics in warfare, medicine, and exploration.
Industry analysts and UN statistics predict equally significant growth in
the market for personal or service robotics over the next few years. What
unique legal challenges will the widespread availability of sophisticated
robots pose? Three panelists with deep and varied expertise discuss the
present, near future, and far future of robotics and the law.Panelists:
* Kenneth Anderson, Professor of Law, American University; Research Fellow, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University
* Paul Saffo, Consulting Associate Professor, Stanford University; Visiting Scholar, Stanford Media X; Columnist, ABCNews.com
* F. Daniel Siciliano, Faculty Director, Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance; Senior Lecturer in Law and Associate Dean for Executive Education and Special Programs, Stanford Law SchoolModerator: M. Ryan Calo, Residential Fellow, Stanford Center for Internet and Society
Co-Sponsored by the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University and the Stanford Program in Law Science and Technology’s Center for Computers and Law (CodeX). More information please contact tech@law.stanford.edu