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Robots are with us, but law and legal systems are not ready. This book identifies the issues posed by human-robot interactions in substantive law, procedural law, and law's narratives, and suggests how to address them. When human-robot interaction results in harm, who or what is responsible? Part I addresses substantive law, including the issues raised by attempts to impose criminal liability on different actors. And when robots perceive aspects of an alleged crime, can they be called as a sort of witness? Part II addresses procedural issues raised by human-robot interactions, including evidentiary problems arising out of data generated by robots monitoring humans, and issues of reliability and privacy. Beyond the standard fare of substantive and procedural law, and in view of the conceptual quandaries posed by robots, Part III offers chapters on narrative and rhetoric, suggesting different ways to understand human-robot interactions, and how to develop coherent frameworks to do that. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Robots have not only become part of our everyday life – they have assumed functions in our criminal justice systems. The following chapters from Sara Beale and Hayley Lawrence, Andrea Roth, Erin Murphy, Emily Silverman, Jörg Arnold, and Sabine Gless focus on evidentiary issues arising from human–robot interaction, while Bart Custers and Lonneke Stevens, as well as David Gray, look at the emerging impact of data protection on criminal justice. This introduction places the chapters in context of the broader issues surrounding the deployment of AI systems in criminal investigations and trials, not all of which are dealt with in the chapters.
This chapter analyses robot testimony in criminal proceedings and the problems it poses, primarily through the example of drowsiness alerts generated during an automated automobile ride. A major issue raised by robot testimony is evaluative data, that is, data in which the robot assesses autonomously collected data independently and records its observation. The chapter stresses the importance of vetting robot testimony and identifies deficits in current understandings of the contributions such testimony can make to the truth finding process. The chapter proposes a taxonomy of robot testimony, including evaluative data, as well as a standardized approach for its use in criminal proceedings.
Robots are with us, but law and legal systems are not ready for them. This book identifies the issues posed by human–robot interactions in substantive law, procedural law, and law’s narratives, and suggests how to address them. When human–robot interaction results in harm, who or what is responsible? Part I addresses substantive law, including the issues raised by attempts to impose criminal liability on different actors. And when robots perceive aspects of an alleged crime, can they be called as a sort of witness? Part II addresses procedural issues raised by human–robot interactions, including evidentiary problems arising out of data generated by robots monitoring humans, and issues of reliability and privacy. Beyond the standard fare of substantive and procedural law, and in view of the conceptual quandaries posed by robots, Part III offers chapters on narrative and rhetoric, suggesting different ways to understand human–robot interactions and how to develop coherent frameworks to do that. This title is Open Access.