Regulating AI and Robotics: Ethical and Legal Challenges
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Rapid progress in AI and robotics is challenging the traditional boundaries of law. Algorithms are widely employed to make decisions that have an increasingly far-reaching impact on individuals and society, potentially leading to manipulation, biases, censorship, social discrimination, violations of privacy and property rights, and more. This has sparked a global debate on how to regulate AI and robotics.
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Harmful outcomes may involve developers, software providers, deployers, or other actors simultaneously, without a clear mechanism for allocating responsibility internally among them.
“Harmful outcomes may involve developers, software providers, deployers, or other actors simultaneously, without a clear mechanism for allocating responsibility internally among them (Wendehorst 2020; Buiten 2024; Ebers 2020).”
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- Authors
- Ebers, M.
- Affiliations
- Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (DE)
- Corresponding author
- Ebers, Martin
- ORCID
- Ebers, Martin
- Venue
- Algorithms and Law
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 2020-07-31
- Pages
- 37-99
- OpenAlex
- W3040609278
- Cited by
- 44
- References
- 73
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 7 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 60.85
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cambridge University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Law › Digitalization, Law, and Regulation
- Social Sciences › Safety Research › Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Artificial Intelligence in Law
- Keywords
- AI regulation, robotics regulation, algorithmic decision-making, algorithmic bias, algorithmic manipulation, censorship, social discrimination, privacy violations, property rights, law and technology
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