Overview
- Provides a comprehensive approach to the legal challenges of robotics technology
- Presents case studies illustrating the current discussion on the agency of autonomous and "intelligent" machines
- Contains a special chapter on new forms of accountability for future use
Part of the book series: Law, Governance and Technology Series (LGTS, volume 10)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- AI Employees and Strict Liability Rules
- Accountability of Artificial Agents
- Artificial Intelligence and the Law
- Contracts and Artificial Inteligence
- Crimes and Robots
- Law as Meta-Technology
- Legal Responsibility and Technology
- Moral Accountability and Technology
- Philosophy of Law and Robots
- Robotics Technology and the Law
- Robots as Legal Persons
- Robots as Proper Agents
- Robots of Just War
- Strict Liability Rules
- The Law, Philosophy and Robotics Technology
- The Laws of robots
- Torts and Robots
About this book
This book explores how the design, construction, and use of robotics technology may affect today’s legal systems and, more particularly, matters of responsibility and agency in criminal law, contractual obligations, and torts. By distinguishing between the behaviour of robots as tools of human interaction, and robots as proper agents in the legal arena, jurists will have to address a new generation of “hard cases.” General disagreement may concern immunity in criminal law (e.g., the employment of robot soldiers in battle), personal accountability for certain robots in contracts (e.g., robo-traders), much as clauses of strict liability and negligence-based responsibility in extra-contractual obligations (e.g., service robots in tort law). Since robots are here to stay, the aim of the law should be to wisely govern our mutual relationships.
Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Laws of Robots
Book Subtitle: Crimes, Contracts, and Torts
Authors: Ugo Pagallo
Series Title: Law, Governance and Technology Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6564-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-6563-4Published: 31 May 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9804-5Published: 08 February 2015
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-6564-1Published: 16 May 2013
Series ISSN: 2352-1902
Series E-ISSN: 2352-1910
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 200
Topics: Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Artificial Intelligence, Ethics, Legal Aspects of Computing, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure Law, Civil Law