{"id":12338,"date":"2014-09-16T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T16:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=12338"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:12:16","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:12:16","slug":"we-need-to-pass-legislation-on-artificial-intelligence-early-and-often","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/we-need-to-pass-legislation-on-artificial-intelligence-early-and-often","title":{"rendered":"We Need to Pass Legislation on Artificial Intelligence Early and Often"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/authors.john_frank_weaver.html\">John Frank Weaver<\/a> \u2014 Slate<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"text text-1 parbase section\">\n<p>Not that long ago, Google announced something unheard of in the auto industry\u2014at least in the part of the auto industry that makes moving cars. <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/cars\/2014\/08\/california-dmv-says-googles-self-driving-car-must-have-a-steering-wheel\/\" target=\"_blank\">A car without a steering wheel or gas and brake pedals<\/a>. To Google, this was the next step in self-driving cars. Why bother with a steering wheel if the driver isn\u2019t driving? Some observers questioned whether this feature in the proposed the test vehicle violated the autonomous vehicle statute in California (where the vehicle would be tested), which required that the driver take control of the self-driving vehicle in case the autonomous system malfunctions. Google claimed that it installed an on\/off button, which satisfied the California law.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-2 text parbase section\">\n<p>California recently weighed in: <a href=\"http:\/\/apps.dmv.ca.gov\/about\/lad\/pdfs\/auto_veh2\/adopted_txt.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Google, you\u2019re wrong<\/a>. The state has released regulations requiring that a test driver be able to take \u201cactive physical control\u201d of the car, meaning with a steering wheel and brakes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"text-3 text parbase section\">\n<p>To this I say\u2014good for you, California.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2014\/09\/12\/we_need_to_pass_artificial_intelligence_laws_early_and_often.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Frank Weaver \u2014 Slate Not that long ago, Google announced something unheard of in the auto industry\u2014at least in the part of the auto industry that makes moving cars. A car without a steering wheel or gas and brake pedals. To Google, this was the next step in self-driving cars. Why bother with [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46879,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12338\/revisions\/46879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}