Legal Fictions: Asimov’s Laws of Robotics Are Not Enough

Science fiction writers have been following – or deliberately rejecting – Isaac Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics since he first wrote about them in the 1940s. But now that we live in a world where robots are vacuuming our floors – not to mention operating on our bodies – lawyers are getting into the act

Law Professor Ryan Calo is working on a major paper (still in draft stage) arguing that — as with the cyberlaw that has accompanied the explosion of the Internet — robotics is going to require n...