Robot Law. Volume II / Ryan Calo, A. M. Froomkin, and Kristen Thomasen, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Calo, M. Ryan, editor.

Froomkin, A. M., editor.

Thomasen, Kristen, editor.

Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robotics--Social aspects.

Robotics--Economic aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (380 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK : Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 2025.

Summary:

An important sequel to the groundbreaking first edition, Robot Law: Volume II discusses the societal and economic transformations introduced by robotics. Editors Ryan Calo, A. Michael Froomkin and Kristen Thomasen, alongside their contributing authors, explore the legal, ethical, and societal challenges that robotics and automated systems pose, investigating the intersection of law and policy in this area. Multidisciplinary authors provide a field-defining examination of years of transformative law and robotics scholarship. Presenting insightful perspectives on the societal risks and opportunities of robotics and artificial intelligence, authors focus on the legal and policy questions that robots present as well as their disruption of existing legal regimes. The book also offers a range of legal, policy, and ethical interventions to help channel robotics and AI in the public interest. Furthermore the book opens an important dialogue, underscoring the need to confront and mitigate the potential communicative or expressive harm that could be caused by this technology. This book is an essential resource for law professors, students, practitioners, and jurists as well as engineering and AI students, academics, and researchers of robotics. Policymakers will find the interventions posed in this book valuable for developing strategies to address the impacts of robotics and AI.

Contents:

Contents: Preface

1. Robot rights? Let's talk about human welfare instead / Abeba Birhane and Jelle van Dijk

2. Why the moral machine is a monster / Abby Everett Jaques

3. The presentation of machine in everyday life / Tim Hwang and Karen Levy

4. Unfair and deceptive robots / Woodrow Hartzog

5. Moral crumple zones: Cautionary tales in human-robot interaction / Madeleine Clare Elish

6. The sum of all (un)intentions: Reasonable foreseeability, platform algorithms, and emergent systemic harm to marginalized communities / Cynthia Khoo

7. When ais outperform doctors: Confronting the challenges of a tort-induced over-reliance on machine learning / A. Michael Froomkin, Ian Kerr and Joelle Pineau

8. Sporting chances: Robot referees and the automation of enforcement / Meg Leta Jones and Karen Levy

9. The death of the AI author / Carys Craig and Ian Kerr

10. Siri-ously 2.0: What artificial intelligence reveals about the first amendment / Toni M. Massaro, Helen Norton and Margot E. Kaminski

11. Beyond airspace safety: A feminist perspective on drone privacy regulation / Kristen Thomasen

Index.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-80088-730-2