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June 19, 2018 - Privacy + Data Security, Artificial Intelligence + Robotics, European Union
If Algorithms Take Over Routine Work, This Also Kills our Expertise
By: Lokke Moerel
In this opinion piece, Morrison & Foerster Senior of Counsel Lokke Moerel challenges current predictions of the ways in which Artificial (AI) Intelligence is going to transform our jobs. Drawing a parallel with how using sat nav systems has impacted our navigation skills, she
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May 21, 2018 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics, European Union
The EU’s Strategy for AI Investment
By: Alistair Maughan and Sana Ashcroft
The European Union has laid out a strategy to promote the growth of Artificial Intelligence technology in Europe. As so often with EU initiatives, the initiatives designed to implement the strategy are long on vision but short on specific practical changes. EU-based entities will
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March 02, 2018 - Regulatory, Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
Personal Delivery Devices (PDD): New Transportation Frontiers Emerge for Autonomous Vehicle Rulemakers
By: Tessa J. Schwartz
When most people think of autonomous vehicles (AVs), expansive highways filled with driverless sports utility vehicles and 18-wheelers likely spring to mind. But there’s another whole category of driverless vehicles in need of regulation: personal delivery devices (PDDs), small autonomous vehicles that mostly use
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February 28, 2018 - Regulatory, Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
California Opens the Road to Fully Driverless Cars; Federal Policymaking Slowly Rolls Forward
By: Tessa J. Schwartz
New regulations from California’s Department of Motor Vehicles are the first in the nation to allow permits for the testing—and the post-testing deployment—of automatic vehicles (AVs) without a human driver present in the vehicle. California’s new regulations aren’t without significant requirements, however. Find out
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September 19, 2017 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
USDOT Issues New Policy on Development and Deployment of Automated Vehicle Technologies
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) in September 2016 released a policy that affects stakeholders in the autonomous-vehicle-technology (AV technology) industry. The policy, among other things: Requires entities that are planning to develop AV technology to submit to the USDOT a detailed report enabling
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May 23, 2017 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
A Simple Case of Statutory Interpretation: The FAA Lacks Authority to Require Model Aircraft Operators to Register
On May 19, 2017, a federal appellate court struck down part of the FAA’s attempt to safely monitor and integrate small unmanned aerial systems (sUAS) into the national airspace. The D.C. Circuit found that the FAA’s Registration Rule, which was promulgated in December 2015
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April 10, 2017 - Artificial Intelligence + Robotics
FAA Announces First-Ever Drone-Specific Airspace Restrictions
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced that, as of April 14, 2017, the restrictions that apply to drone flights near populated areas and airports will also apply to drone flights near 133 military facilities. The first airspace restrictions to apply specifically and solely to
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Topic Archives: Artificial Intelligence + Robotics

If Algorithms Take Over Routine Work, This Also Kills our Expertise

By: Lokke Moerel

The EU’s Strategy for AI Investment

By: Alistair Maughan and Sana Ashcroft

Personal Delivery Devices (PDD): New Transportation Frontiers Emerge for Autonomous Vehicle Rulemakers

By: Tessa J. Schwartz

California Opens the Road to Fully Driverless Cars; Federal Policymaking Slowly Rolls Forward

By: Tessa J. Schwartz

USDOT Issues New Policy on Development and Deployment of Automated Vehicle Technologies

A Simple Case of Statutory Interpretation: The FAA Lacks Authority to Require Model Aircraft Operators to Register

FAA Announces First-Ever Drone-Specific Airspace Restrictions