Tuesday, January 17, 2017


EU may declare robots `electronic persons'

| Jan 16, 2017, 02.14 PM IST

Members of the Europe an Parliament (MEPs) have voted to propose granting legal status to robots, categorising them as "electronic persons" and warning that new legislation is needed to focus on how the machines can be held responsible for their "acts or omissions".

The draft report, tabled by Mady Delvaux-Stehres, a socialist MEP from Luxembourg, states current rules are "insufficient" for what it calls the "technological revolution", and suggests the EU should establish "basic ethical principles...to avoid potential pitfalls".

Delvaux-Stehres's resolution was easily passed by the European Parliament


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