Can an AI program be a criminal?
Recently we've seen examples of bots that can buy illegal substances online or that spit out defamatory tweets. But can an artificial intelligence program be a criminal? Can a robot? Ryan Calo thinks robotics will soon require its own legal framework.
Recently we've seen examples of bots that can buy illegal substances online or bluff their way to poker victory. Can an artificial intelligence program be a criminal? And what happens when it's not just software, it's actual physical robots? Ryan Calo thinks that just as the internet created a whole new sphere of cyberlaw, robotics will require its own legal framework.
Ryan's paper on Robotics and Cyberlaw
Last week, we spoke to Darius Kazemi, who created a bot that buys goods randomly on Amazon