Spring Semester 2015
Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and the Law
Professor Jack M. Balkin
Yale Law School
Syllabus (02252015 Version)
1. Introduction: Robotics and Cyberlaw (1/26/2015)
- Ryan Calo, A Horse of a Different Color, Slate, at http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2014/10/robotics_law_should_take_cues_from_cyberlaw.single.html
- Ryan Calo, Robotics and the Lessons of Cyberlaw (available on course site)
2. How to Regulate a Robot (2/02/2015)
- Isaac Asimov, Runaround (available on course site)
- The Golem of Prague, from A Treasury of Jewish Folklore (available on course site)
- R.U.R. Wikipedia entry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R.U.R. (for an English translation of the play, see http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/c/capek/karel/rur/frontmatter.html)
- Toyota Case: Single Bit Flip that Killed, Junko Yoshida http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1319903
- Robin Marantz, Henig, Death By Robot, New York Times Magazine, at http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/11/magazine/death-by-robot.html
- Joanna J. Bryson, Patiency Is Not a Virtue: Intelligent Artefacts and the Design of Ethical Systems, at https://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~jjb/ftp/Bryson-MQ-J.pdf
- Reverse Engineering Information Privacy Law, Michael Birnhack (pages 32-51), available at http://yjolt.org/reverse-engineering-informational-privacy-law (read section on Technology Neutral Laws)
3. Robot Responsibility I: Robots and War (2/09/2015)
- Human Rights Watch & Int’l Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law Sch., Advancing the Debate on Killer Robots: 12 Key Arguments for a Preemptive Ban on Fully Autonomous Weapons (2014), http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/related_material/Advancing%20the%20Debate_8May2014_Final.pdf.
- Michael Schmitt, Autonomous Weapon Systems and International Humanitarian Law: A Reply to the Critics, 2013 Harv. Nat’l Sec. J. Features, http://harvardnsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Schmitt-Autonomous-Weapon-Systems-and-IHL-Final.pdf.
- P.W. Singer, Robots at War: The New Battlefield, 2008 Wilson Q. 30, http://archive.wilsonquarterly.com/sites/default/files/articles/WQ_VOL33_W_2009_Article_03.pdf.
4. Robot Responsibility II: Civil Liability (2/16/2015)
- The Application of Traditional Tort Theory to Embodied Machine Intelligence, Curtis E.A. Karnow, http://works.bepress.com/curtis_karnow/9/ (18 pages)
- Open Robotics, Ryan Calo, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1706293 (read pp 101-107; 122-140)(~25 pages)
5. Robot Responsibility III: Self-Driving Cars (2/23/2015)
- Google’s Self-Driving Cars: 300,000 Miles Logged, Not a Single Accident Under Computer Control, Rebecca J. Rosen, The Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/12/08/googles-selfdriving-cars-300000-miles-logged-not-a-single-accident-under-computer-control/260926/
- The Reasonable Self Driving Car, Bryant Walker Smith (Oct. 2013) http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2013/10/reasonable-self-driving-car
- Patrick Lin, The Ethics of Self-Driving Cars, The Atlantic (Oct. 8, 2013), http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/the-ethics-of-autonomous-cars/280360/
- Jack Boeglin, The Costs of Self-Driving Cars, Yale J. of Law & Tech. (forthcoming 2015)(available on course site)
6. Robot Responsibility IV: Criminal Liability (3/02/2015)
- I, Robot - I, Criminal–When Science Fiction Becomes Reality: Legal Liability of AI Robots Committing Criminal Offenses, Gabriel Hallevy, Syracuse Science & Technology Law Reporter 22 (2010) http://jost.syr.edu/2010/08/02/i-robot-i-criminal-when-science-fiction-becomes-reality-legal-liability-of-ai-robots-committing-criminal-offenses/ (37 pages)
- Drama as Police Arraign Monkeys for Robbery, http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=29452
- The Proposed New Copyright Crime of “Aiding and Abetting”, Michael Carrier, http://blog.oup.com/2010/10/copyright-crime/
- Ryan Calo, A Robot Really Committed a Crime, Now What?, at http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryancalo/2014/12/23/a-robot-really-committed-a-crime-now-what/
- Swiss Public Prosecutor Seizes And Seals Work By !Mediengruppe Bitnik, at https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/r/2015-01-15-statement/
- John Frank Weaver, Who’s Responsible When a Twitter Bot Sends a Threatening Tweet?, Slate, at http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2015/02/25/who_is_responsible_for_death_threats_from_a_twitter_bot.html
7. Robot Creativity, Authorship, and Ownership I: Should AI-generated speech be protected by the First Amendment? (3/09/2015)
- Free Speech for Computers, Tim Wu http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/20/opinion/free-speech-for-computers.html
- Freedom of Speech and Information Produced Using Computer Algorithms, Eugene Volokh, http://www.volokh.com/2012/06/21/freedom-of-speech-and-information-produced-using-computer-algorithms/
- Automated Arrangement of Information, Frank Pasquale, http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2012/06/automated-arrangement-of-information-speech-conduct-and-power.html
- Stuart Minor Benjamin, Algorithms and Speech, 161 U. Penn. L. Rev. 1445 (2013)
8. Robot Creativity, Authorship, and Ownership II: Who Owns What Robots Write? Copyright Issues (3/23/2015)
- Pamela Samuelson, Allocating Ownership Rights in Computer-Generated Works, 1185 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 47 (1986)
- Annemarie Bridy, Coding Creativity: Copyright and the Artificially Intelligent Author, 2012 Stan. Tech. L. Rev. 5
- Monkey Business: Can a Monkey License Its Copyrights to A News Agency? http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110706/00200314983/monkey-business-can-monkey-license-its-copyrights-to-news-agency.shtml
- Lauren Raab, Monkey Selfies Can’t Be Copyrighted, Federal Office Decides, L.A. Times, at http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-monkey-selfie-copyright-20140821-story.html
- Alex Hudson, Man or Machine: Can Robots Really Write Novels?, BBC News, at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9764416.stm
- Electronic Frontier Foundation, Who Will Own the Internet of Things? (Hint: Not the Users), at https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/01/who-will-own-internet-things-hint-not-users
9. Robot Creativity, Authorship, and Ownership III: Who Owns and/or is Responsible for what Robots Invent and/or Build? Intellectual Property and 3D Printers (3/30/2015)
- Michael Weinberg, It will be Awesome if They Don’t Screw it Up, http://www.publicknowledge.org/it-will-be-awesome-if-they-dont-screw-it-up
- Deven Desai and Gerard Magliocca, Patents, Meet Napster: 3D Printing and the Digitization of Things, 102 Georgetown Law Journal 1691 (2014)
- Liza Vertinsky & Todd M. Rice, Thinking about Thinking Machines: Implications of Machine Inventors for Patent Law, 8 B.U. Sci. & Tech L.J. 2 (2002)
- Walter Hickey, It is Now Possible to Download an AR-15 Assault Rifle Using 3D Printing, Business Insider, August 10, 2012, at http://www.businessinsider.com/it-is-now-possible-to-download-and-3d-print-a-working-ar-15-assault-rifle-2012-8
- Mark Lemley, IP in a World Without Scarcity, NYU L. Rev. (forthcoming 2015), at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2413974&rec=1&srcabs=2358233
- Nora Freeman Engstrom, 3-D Printing And Product Liability – Identifying The Obstacles, http://www.pennlawreview.com/online/162-U-Pa-L-Rev-Online-35.pdf
10. Robots and Privacy (4/06/2015)
- Ryan Calo, Robots and Privacy, in Robot Ethics: The Ethical and Social Implications of Robotics 187-202 (Patrick Lin et al. eds., MIT Press 2012), at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1599189
- Kyllo v. United States, 533 U.S. 27 (2001)
- United States v. Jones, 132 S.Ct. 945 (2012)
- Riley v. California, 134 S.Ct. 2473 (2014)
- Margot Kaminski, Drone Federalism: Civilian Drones and the Things They Carry, 4 California Law Review Circuit 57 (2013)
11. Human-Robot Social Issues I: Protecting Humans: Work and the Economy (4/13/2015)
- Tyler Cowen, The Robots are Here, Politico, at http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/the-robots-are-here-98995.html#.VL7FKEfF-3I
- Rick Wartzman, The Robot Invasion, The American Prospect, at http://prospect.org/article/robot-invasion
- How Technology is Destroying Jobs, David Rotman (2013), at http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/515926/how-technology-is-destroying-jobs/
- Why Workers Are Losing the War Against Machines (2011), at http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2011/10/why-workers-are-losing-the-war-against-machines/247278/
- Claire Cain Miller, As Robots Grow Smarter, American Workers Struggle to Keep Up, at http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/16/upshot/as-robots-grow-smarter-american-workers-struggle-to-keep-up.html?_r=0&abt=0002&abg=1
- Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne, The Future Of Employment: How Susceptible Are Jobs To Computerisation?, at http://www.futuretech.ox.ac.uk/sites/futuretech.ox.ac.uk/files/The_Future_of_Employment_OMS_Working_Paper_1.pdf
- Tom Meltzer, Robot doctors, online lawyers and automated architects: the future of the professions?, The Guardian, at http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/15/robot-doctors-online-lawyers-automated-architects-future-professions-jobs-technology
12. Human-Robot Social Issues II: Protecting Humans: Love, Caretaking, & Sex (4/20/2015)
- Robot Sex and Marriage: Will Society Accept It?, at http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2012/05/robot_sex_and_marriage_will_society_accept_it_.html
- Paul Waldman, Here’s Why One Day You Will Probably Fall In Love With a Robot, The American Prospect, at http://prospect.org/article/heres-why-one-day-you-will-probably-fall-love-robot
- Sex Robots and Roboticization of Consent, available at http://robots.law.miami.edu/program/ (selection TBD)
- Paro the Robo-Seal Aims to Comfort Elderly, but Is It Ethical? Wall Street Journal (June 21, 2010), at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704463504575301051844937276.html
13. Human-Robot Social Issues III: Protecting Robots (4/27/2015)
- Kate Darling, Extending Legal Rights to Robots (available on course site)
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