Robotica: Speech Rights And Artificial Intelligence

✍ Scribed by Ronald K. L. Collins, David M. Skover

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 179
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In every era of communications technology - whether print, radio, television, or Internet - some form of government censorship follows to regulate the medium and its messages. Today we are seeing the phenomenon of 'machine speech' enhanced by the development of sophisticated artificial intelligence. Ronald K. L. Collins and David M. Skover argue that the First Amendment must provide defenses and justifications for covering and protecting robotic expression. It is irrelevant that a robot is not human and cannot have intentions; what matters is that a human experiences robotic speech as meaningful. This is the constitutional recognition of 'intentionless free speech' at the interface of the robot and receiver. Robotica is the first book to develop the legal arguments for these purposes. Aimed at law and communication scholars, lawyers, and free speech activists, this work explores important new problems and solutions at the interface of law and technology.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half title
Title
Copyright
Contents
About the Authors
About the Commentators
Acknowledgments
The Thesis
Prologue
Part I - The Progress and Perils of Communication
Part II - Robots and Their Receivers
Part III - The New Norm of Utility
Epilogue
The Commentaries
Robotica in Context
The Age of Sensorship
Speech In, Speech Out
An Old Libel Lawyer Confronts Robotica’s Brave New World
What’s Old Is New Again (and Vice Versa)
Reply
Robotica Refined
Notes
Index

✦ Subjects

Freedom Of Speech: Philosophy; Technology And Law; Artificial Intelligence: Law And Legislation