A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents

by Samir Chopra, Laurence F. White

What legal status should be granted to artificial agents?

Genres: Law, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Technology, Politics

264 pages, Hardcover

First published July 28, 2011

About the author

Samir Chopra is Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He earned a BA in Mathematical Statistics from Delhi University (1984), an MS in Computer Science from the New Jersey Institute of Technology (1990) and a PhD in Philosophy from the City University of New York (2000). He has worked on logics for belief revision and merging; his current research interests include pragmatism, Nietzsche, the philosophical foundations of artificial intelligence, philosophy of law, the legal theory of artificial agents, and the politics and ethics of technology.

Samir is a blogger at The Pitch, ESPN-Cricinfo, and at http://samirchopra.com. He runs a
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