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Robotica: Preserving the Rights of Speech with Machines

Robotica: Preserving the Rights of Speech with Machines

Name: Robotica: Preserving the Rights of Speech with Machines
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9781108448710
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Author: Ronald K. L. Collins; David Skover
ISBN: 9781108448710

Edited by Ronald K. L. Collins · David Skover

Cambridge University Press June 2018

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ISBN-13: 9781108448710
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication: June 2018
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

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 defences 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.

The Thesis

Ronald Collins and David Skover: Prologue: Technology & Communication

I. The Progress & Perils of Communication

II. Robots & Their Receivers

III. The New Norm of Utility

Epilogue: From Areopagitica to Robotica. The Commentaries

Ryan Calo: Robotica in Context - An Introduction to the Commentaries

Jane Bambauer: The Age of Sensorship

James Grimmelmann: Speech In, Speech Out

Bruce E. H. Johnson: An Old Libel Lawyer Confronts Robotica's Brave New World

Helen Norton: What's Old Is New Again (and Vice-Versa). Reply

Ronald Collins & David Skover: Robotica Refined.