*2015. 6. 24. Robo Universe 2015

1. A New Legal Framework (Legal Issues)
for Robots, Drones, and IoT
Kim, Kyung Hwan
IT law attorney at Minwho Law P.C.

2. Contents
Robots, drone, and IoT○
Definition and Legal Position○
Robot law○
Robot ethics○
Civil Liability○
Criminal Liability○
Robot’s Right○
Protecting Humans○

3. Robots, drone, and IoT
semi-autonomous / autonomous / AI (artificial intelligence)○
industrial / military / home / social / spy / healthcare○
robot(physical) / bot(virtual, software)○
robots, drone, and IoT○

4. Definition and Legal Position
Definition of 'Robot’○
- labor machine without emotion
- a mechanical or virtual artificial agent that is guided by a
computer program or electronic circuitry (from wikipedia)
- sense-think-act machine
- autonomous machine able to perform human actions

5. Legal Position(or entity)○
things(chattel) =< animal << person
[robots] [robots]

6. Robot law
Robot Law?○
Robots law and Traditional (offline) law○
Robot law and Cyber (online) Law○
- Robotics combines the promiscuity of information with the
capacity to do physical harm (from Ryan Calo)

7. Robot ethics
Robot ethics? or Developer ethics?○
Robot ethics○
- Asimov’s three laws
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction,
allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except
where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such
protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
- Killer robots (ex : Banning killer robots)

8. Civil Liability
Civil Liability○
ex) Self-Driving Car Accident
- Car : Product Liability
- Road
- Driver
- Robot
ex) AI Robot's injury to human
- Manufacturer : Product Liability (absolute liability)
- Owner : liability for manufactured products

9. Criminal Liability
Criminal Liability○
ex) programmed robots commits a crime
- actus reus (criminal conduct)
- mens rea (intending mind)
- principal who commits a crime through an act of an innocent
human agent

10. Robot’s Right
Robot's right○
- Personal Liberty (ex : TeleExistence entry, departure)→
- Ownership (ex : transfer, inheritance)
- freedom of expression
- Copyright (ex : robot writes a book)

11. Protecting Humans
Protecting Humans○
- Ownership (ex : slave, authentication)
- Privacy (ex : drone, IoT, social robot)
- Hacking (ex : authentication)
- Unemployment (ex : robot lawyer)
- Love & Marriage

12. Thank you
oalmephaga@minwho.kr

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