Europe divided over robot ‘personhood’ — from politico.eu by Janosch Delcker Excerpt: BERLIN — Think lawsuits involving humans are tricky? Try taking an intelligent robot to court. While autonomous robots with humanlike, all-encompassing capabilities are still decades away, European lawmakers, legal experts and manufacturers are already locked in a high-stakes debate about their legal status: […]
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