Cari tutti,
vi giro l'invito (sotto) alla Public Lecture che il *Prof Ian Kerr*
terrà *lunedì
prossimo (04.03.2019) alle 14:30*, a Milano presso l'Università Bocconi
(via Sarfatti, 25, *aula 33*) su *“Can robots invade your privacy?”*.
Se qualcuno fosse in zona e avesse voglia di partecipare è il benvenuto - é
stata un'iniziativa dell'ultimo minuto.
Un caro saluto,
Alina Trapova
*Can Robots Invade Your Privacy?*
Machines are getting pretty good at doing things by themselves. They can
sense their environments. They can learn from the data that they have
gathered or been given. And, they can make accurate predictions
or sound decisions about people and things which can be acted upon without
human intervention or oversight. As a result, robots and AIs are starting
to outperform human experts in an increasing array of narrow tasks,
including driving, surgery, and medical diagnostics. This is fueling a
growing optimism that robots and AIs will exceed humans more generally and
spectacularly; some think, to the point where we will have to consider
their moral and legal status.
But the law does not currently think about robots in this way. For example,
when it comes to spying robots or AI used by law enforcement agencies to
conduct mass surveillance, privacy law generally applies only when some
human comes to know what the robots know. Judge Posner, for example, has
famously opined that robots and AIs cannot invade privacy because they are
not sentient beings. Indeed, most judges and many lawyers share the view
that since robots and AIs are incapable of human-level cognition, they are
of no consequence to our privacy—we don’t need to worry about privacy
unless or until there are human eyes on the data.
In this keynote address, Ian Kerr, Canada Research Chair in Ethics, Law and
Technology challenges the traditional view from both a legal and ethical
perspective. He argues that when the likes of Siri or Alexa are able to
form reliable beliefs about us and are also able to act on those beliefs,
the traditional approach of Judge Posner and others leads to the wrong
conclusion in law and in ethics.
