Greg McMullen, Executive Director of the IPDB Foundation, discusses the legal and policy issues raised by AI, including employment, liability, ability to contract, intellectual property rights, and human rights.

4. A.I. law and policy.

5. Jobs.

8. But A.I. won’t take my
job!

14. Liability.

20. Intellectual property.

22. Contracts.

25. Creating policy.

27. Liability.

28. - special insurance for robot
manufacturers
- require each robot to
maintain its own insurance
- robot registry so we can
trace who made it, who owns
it, who operates it

29. “liability would be proportionate
to the actual level of
instructions given to the robot
and of its autonomy, so that
the greater a robot's learning
capability or autonomy is, the
lower other parties’
responsibility should be”

30. Intellectual property.

31. “Criteria for
‘intellectual creation’
for copyrightable
works produced by
computers or robots
should be drawn up.”

32. Personhood.

33. “the most sophisticated
autonomous robots could
be established as having
the status of electronic
persons with specific
rights and obligations”

34. Discrimination.

35. Greg McMullen
@gmcmullen