Robotica: Speech Rights and Artificial Intelligence

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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.

Offers a new theory of First Amendment speech rights that covers robotic expression.

Describes the evolution of communications technologies and government efforts to censor them.

Proposes a First Amendment theory of utility to justify protection for robotic expression.

Copyright:
2018

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781108612708
Related ISBNs:
9781108428064, 9781108428064
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
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Copyrighted By:
Ronald K. L. Collins and David M. Skover
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Computers and Internet, Technology, Law, Legal Issues and Ethics, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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