Design / Science / Technology
Reasonable Robot
About the Event
Featuring the internationally renowned Professor Ryan Abbott, Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Surrey School of Law, Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and author of The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law.
Ryan will be interviewed by Professor Jeannie Marie Paterson, co-director of CAIDE and through leader in the field of AI, Law and fairness.
Does our antiquated legal framework constrain inventive AI. Should AI be allowed to invent? Ryan argues that the law should not discriminate between AI and human behaviour and proposes a new legal principle aims to improve human well-being.
Join this discussion jointly presented by Centre for Artifical Intelligence and Digital Ethics (CAIDE) and the Australian Society for Computers and Law (AUSCL).
Click on the link for more detail on Ryan’s book: Reasonable Robot
Click on the link for the publisher’s website: Cambridge University Press
Click here for Jeannie’s research: Research publications
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About the Speaker
Ryan Abbott
Professor
Ryan is a Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the University of Surrey School of Law, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and author of The Reasonable Robt: Artificial Intelligence and the Law published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press.

Jeannie Paterson
Professor
Jeannie is a Professor of Law and the Co-Director of the Centre for AI and Digital Ethics at the University of Melbourne. Jeannie specialises in the areas of contracts, consumer protection and consumer credit law, as well as the role of new technologies in these fields.