A New Legal Framework (Legal Issues)

for Robots, Drones, and IoT

Kim, Kyung Hwan

IT law attorney at Minwho Law P.C.

Contents

Robots, drone, and IoT ○

Definition and Legal Position○

Robot law○

Robot ethics○

Civil Liability○

Criminal Liability○

Robot’s Right○

Protecting Humans○

Robots, drone, and IoT

semi-autonomous / autonomous / AI (artificial intelligence)○

industrial / military / home / social / spy / healthcare○

robot(physical) / bot(virtual, software)○

robots, drone, and IoT ○

Definition and Legal Position

Definition of 'Robot’○

- labor machine without emotion

- a mechanical or virtual artificial agent that is guided by a

computer program or electronic circuitry (from wikipedia)

- sense-think-act machine

- autonomous machine able to perform human actions

Legal Position(or entity)○

things(chattel) =< animal << person

[robots] [robots]

Robot law

Robot Law? ○

Robots law and Traditional (offline) law ○

Robot law and Cyber (online) Law○

- Robotics combines the promiscuity of information with the

capacity to do physical harm (from Ryan Calo)

Robot ethics

Robot ethics? or Developer ethics?○

Robot ethics○

- Asimov’s three laws

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction,

allow a human being to come to harm.

2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except

where such orders would conflict with the First Law.

3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such

protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

- Killer robots (ex : Banning killer robots)

Civil Liability

Civil Liability○

ex) Self-Driving Car Accident

- Car : Product Liability

- Road

- Driver

- Robot

ex) AI Robot's injury to human

- Manufacturer : Product Liability (absolute liability)

- Owner : liability for manufactured products

Criminal Liability

Criminal Liability ○

ex) programmed robots commits a crime

- actus reus (criminal conduct)

- mens rea (intending mind)

- principal who commits a crime through an act of an innocent

human agent

Robot’s Right

Robot's right○

- Personal Liberty (ex : TeleExistence entry, departure)→

- Ownership (ex : transfer, inheritance)

- freedom of expression

- Copyright (ex : robot writes a book)

Protecting Humans

Protecting Humans○

- Ownership (ex : slave, authentication)

- Privacy (ex : drone, IoT, social robot)

- Hacking (ex : authentication)

- Unemployment (ex : robot lawyer)

- Love & Marriage

Thank you

oalmephaga@minwho.kr

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