EU Parliament Drafting Civil Law for Robotics
Fred Thiel
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Fred Thiel
Chairman & CEO at MARA Holdings (NASDAQ:MARA). (FYI - I do not respond to LinkedIn messages)
It reads like the preamble to a science fiction novel, starting with Mary Shelly's Frankenstein, Prague's Golem, Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics and ending with the robot of Karel ?apek. The EU Parliament is undertaking to codify a set of civil laws for robotics.
The draft motion (click link to read the full motion) covers areas such as liability, development of robotics and AI for civilian use, ethics, the creation of an agency to regulate robotics, IP, standardization, autonomous vehicles, robots for medical and care purposes etc...
We should all keep an eye on how this motion evolves as these rules and regulations will have long term effects on the robotics and AI industries as well as autonomous vehicles and drones.
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8 个月Fred, thanks for sharing! Would love to learn more...
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8 年Interesting. However, I don't think anyone so far has convincingly demonstrated why exactly the current rules on attaching liability are "insufficient" and why the modern legal personhood conventions are no longer adequate. Robots are (1) products and (2) tools and as such pose a liability threat primarily for those who produce and operate them. Why is that suddenly an issue, why is that not fair any more? A true strong AI, machine consciousness are not even on the horizon. And you can limit liability simply by reshuffling the asset ownership structure. Not quite confident in your robots? Create a limited liability company to own them. So I'd rather agree with Bert-Jaap Koops et al.* in that, at a minimum, in the short term we'll be just fine with existing rules, just with some development in their interpretation by scholars and courts. *Koops B-J, Hildebrandt M and Jaquet-Chiffelle D, ‘Bridging the Accountability Gap: Rights for New Entities in the Information Society’ (2010) 11 Minnesota Journal of Law, Science and Technology 497
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8 年Automation makes it possible to produce good with few (human) workers. How will we "promote the general welfare" in this modern world of chronic unemployment? What will the scarcity of jobs mean for the worsening distribution of wealth? We better figure it out soon.