SMNR: Law and Policy of AI and Other Emerging Technologies

Semester: Spring 2017
Course ID: 397S
Credit Hours: 3
Unique: 29640

Course Information

Course Type: Seminar
Grading Method: Pass/Fail Allowed (JD only)

Registration Information

Upperclass-only elective

Meeting Times

Day	Time	Location
FRI	10:30 am - 12:20 pm	TNH 3.115

Description

This writing seminar examines a broad range of legal and policy challenges posed by artificial intelligence and other emergent technologies. Topics covered will include: technology and privacy; robots and personhood; superintelligence; criminal and civil liability arising from emerging technologies; driverless cars; synthetic biology; post-humanism and the “Singularity” (cloning, biotech, prosthetics and other innovation); job loss and the “abundance society;” lethal autonomous weapons and drones. Paper required.

Textbooks ( * denotes required )

Artificial Intelligence: What Everyone Needs to Know *

Jerry Kaplan

Oxford , edition: 1st
ISBN: 978-0190602390

Robot Law *

Ryan Calo, et al

Edward Elgar Pub , edition: 1st
ISBN: 978-1783476725

Instructors

Jinks, Derek P

Firth-Butterfield, Kay

Important Class Changes

Date	Updated
09/23/2016	Instructor(s) updated