Robotica: Speech Rights and Artificial Intelligence - Hardcover

Collins, Ronald K. L.; Skover, David M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1108428061 ISBN 13: 9781108428064

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2018

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.

About this title

Book Description:

In every era of communications technology - whether print, radio, television, or Internet - governments have found ways to control and censor communication. The same will occur with artificial intelligence and robotic expression. This is the first book to develop new First Amendment defenses and justifications for covering and protecting robotic speech.

About the Author:

Ronald K. L. Collins is the Harold S. Shefelman Distinguished Scholar at the University of Washington School of Law.

David M. Skover is the Fredric C. Tausend Professor of Constitutional Law at Seattle University School of Law.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1108428061
• ISBN 13: 9781108428064
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 178