Drone Law Today

How we grapple with artificial intelligence may end up as the most important technological question of our time. What does it mean to be human if we create super-intelligent machines? If a robot seems to have a conscience, or consciousness, what then? Could an A.I. entity own property, control its own money, and make its own decisions? Could an A.I. become a virtual "person" like a corporation, and maybe live forever? Will A.I. even be recognizable to us? Will it resemble our human minds, or will it be entirely foreign, like a cuttlefish? Or an ant? Can you sue a robot? Can you punish software? Would that be like "suing the devil?" These are defining questions. They are at the edge of what it means to be human. What it means to live with each other. And, at bottom, that's what law is about. When drones are controlled by A.I. systems, whatever those look like, the legal questions get immediately sticky. They get very difficult. This is all going to happen, faster than you think. In today's episode, our guest i