#439257 Can a Robot Be Arrested? Hold a Patent? ...Steven Cherry When horses were replaced by engines, for work and transportation, we didn’t need to rethink our legal frameworks. So when a fixed-in-place factory machine is replaced by a free-standing AI robot, or when a human truck driver is replaced by autonomous driving software, do we really need to make any fundamental changes to the law? My guest today seems to think so. Or perhaps more accurately, he thinks that surprisingly, we do not; he says we need to change the laws less than we think. In case after case, he says, we just need to treat the robot more or less the same way we treat a person. A year ago, he was giving presentations in which he argued that AIs can be patentholders. Since then, his views have advanced even further in that direction. And so last fall, he published a short but powerful treatise, The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law, published by Cambridge University Press. In it, he argues that the law more often than not should not discriminate between AI and human behavior. More Signal, Less Noise:
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