
The Laws of Robots
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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.
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A former lawyer and current professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Turin (Italy), Ugo Pagallo is the author of fifteen monographs, as well as one hundred essays in scholarly journals and book chapters. He has been a member of many international research projects, collaborating with such institutions as the European Commission, the World Health Organization, the IEEE, and the Japanese government. His main interests are Artificial Intelligence (AI) & law, network theory, governance, human-robot interaction, and information technology law.