Oct 6 2015
We Robot 2016 is a conference at the intersection of the law, policy, and technology of robotics, to be held in Coral Gables, Florida on April 1 & 2, 2016.
We Robot is now in its fifth year, returning to the University of Miami School of Law after being hosted by the University of Washington Stanford Law School last April.
Robotics seems increasingly likely to become a transformative technology. We Robot 2016 builds on existing scholarship exploring the role of robotics to examine how the increasing sophistication of robots and their widespread deployment everywhere from the home, to hospitals, to public spaces, and even to the battlefield disrupts existing legal regimes or requires rethinking of various policy issues.
The two-day conference is for those on the front lines of robot theory, design, or development and will present scholarly papers on:
- The impact of robots on the jobs, the economy, and the workforce.
- Comparative perspectives on the regulation of robotic technologies.
- Assessment of what institutional configurations, if any, would best serve to integrate robotics into society responsibly.
- Effects of employment of autonomous weapons in the military or law enforcement contexts.
- Regulatory issues raised by the deployment of robotics, including in medicine, in the air (drones), and on the roads (autonomous cars).
- The impact of human enhancement via robot components, and the need for policy, legal and regulatory structures that address these developing technologies and resulting ethical and social issues.
- The impact of artificial intelligence on civil liberties, including sexuality, equal protection, privacy, suffrage, and procreation. Standardization issues, especially as they relate to issues arising from related disciplines such as ethics, psychology, or law.
Come join the conversations between the people designing, building, and deploying robots, and the people who design or influence the legal and social structures in which robots will operate.
Source: http://www.miami.edu/