The Reasonable Robot

The Reasonable Robot
Author: Ryan Abbott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 165
Release: 2020-06-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108472125

Argues that treating people and artificial intelligence differently under the law results in unexpected and harmful outcomes for social welfare.

Taxing Robots

Taxing Robots
Author: Xavier Oberson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2019
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788976525

The increasing use of artificial intelligence within the workplace is likely to cause significant disruption to the labour market and in turn, to the economy, due to a reduction in the number of taxable workers. In this innovative book, Xavier Oberson proposes taxing robots as a possible solution to the anticipated problem of declining tax revenues.

Tax and Robotics

Tax and Robotics
Author: Álvaro Falcón Pulido
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 193
Release: 2023-12-18
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9004538518

We are standing on the threshold of the robotic era, the fourth industrial revolution. The undeniable impact and consequences of robotics are already raising economic concerns, such as the loss of income tax revenue as robots gradually replace human workers, as well as legal doubts regarding the possible taxation of robots or their owners. Financial law must adapt to this new reality by answering several crucial questions. Should robots pay taxes? Can they? Do they have the ability to pay? Can they be considered entrepreneurs for VAT purposes? These are just some of the many issues that Dr. Álvaro Falcón Pulido lucidly and insightfully addresses in this fascinating new monographic work, which includes an exhaustive bibliography on the subject.

Taxing Robots

Taxing Robots
Author: Xavier Oberson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Artificial intelligence
ISBN: 9781788976510

""The increasing use of artificial intelligence within the workplace is likely to cause significant disruption to the labour market and in turn, to the economy, due to a reduction in the number of taxable workers. In this innovative book, Xavier Oberson proposes taxing robots as a possible solution to the anticipated problem of declining tax revenues. In accordance with guiding legal and economic principles, the book explores the various tax models that could be applied to both the use of robots, such as a usage or automation tax, and to robots directly. Numerous associated issues are discussed, such as the definition of robots for tax purposes, the difficulty of granting a tax capacity to robots, as well as the compatibility of robot taxes with international tax rules. The author concludes by putting forward a possible system for the taxation of robots, taking all of these issues into consideration. Being the first work of its kind to explore the potential for taxing robots in detail, this book will be a unique resource for researchers in the fields of law and economics who have an interest in the impact of artificial intelligence. Lawyers and tax professionals can also benefit from Oberson's insights on what future models of taxation may look like and what the legal consequences may be"-- Page four of cover.

Robot Ethics

Robot Ethics
Author: Patrick Lin
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 399
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 026252600X

Prominent experts from science and the humanities explore issues in robot ethics that range from sex to war. Robots today serve in many roles, from entertainer to educator to executioner. As robotics technology advances, ethical concerns become more pressing: Should robots be programmed to follow a code of ethics, if this is even possible? Are there risks in forming emotional bonds with robots? How might society—and ethics—change with robotics? This volume is the first book to bring together prominent scholars and experts from both science and the humanities to explore these and other questions in this emerging field. Starting with an overview of the issues and relevant ethical theories, the topics flow naturally from the possibility of programming robot ethics to the ethical use of military robots in war to legal and policy questions, including liability and privacy concerns. The contributors then turn to human-robot emotional relationships, examining the ethical implications of robots as sexual partners, caregivers, and servants. Finally, they explore the possibility that robots, whether biological-computational hybrids or pure machines, should be given rights or moral consideration. Ethics is often slow to catch up with technological developments. This authoritative and accessible volume fills a gap in both scholarly literature and policy discussion, offering an impressive collection of expert analyses of the most crucial topics in this increasingly important field.

Robot Law

Robot Law
Author: Ryan Calo
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 425
Release: 2016-01-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1783476737

Like the Internet before it, robotics is a socially and economically transformative technology. Robot Law explores how the increasing sophistication of robots and their widespread deployment into hospitals, public spaces, and battlefields requires rethinking of a wide variety of philosophical and public policy issues, including how this technology interacts with existing legal regimes, and thus may inspire changes in policy and in law. This volume collects the efforts of a diverse group of scholars who each, in their own way, has worked to overcome barriers in order to facilitate necessary and timely discussions of a technology in its infancy. Identifying controversial legal, ethical, and philosophical problems, the authors reveal how issues surrounding robotics and regulation are more complicated than engineers could have anticipated, and just how much definitional and applied work remains to be done. This groundbreaking examination of a brand-new reality will be of interest and of use to a variety of groups as the authors include engineers, ethicists, lawyers, roboticists, philosophers, and serving military.

Computers, People, and Thought

Computers, People, and Thought
Author: Malachy Eaton
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 236
Release: 2020-09-22
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 3030553000

In this book the author discusses synergies between computers and thought, related to the field of Artificial Intelligence; between people and thought, leading to questions of consciousness and our existence as humans; and between computers and people, leading to the recent remarkable advances in the field of humanoid robots. He then looks toward the implications of intelligent 'conscious' humanoid robots with superior intellects, able to operate in our human environments. After presenting the basic engineering components and supporting logic of computer systems, and giving an overview of the contributions of pioneering scientists in the domains of computing, logic, and robotics, in the core of the book the author examines the meaning of thought and intelligence in the context of specific tasks and successful AI approaches. In the final part of the book he introduces related societal and ethical implications. The book will be a useful accompanying text in courses on artificial intelligence, robotics, intelligent systems, games, and evolutionary computing. It will also be valuable for general readers and historians of technology.

Tax and Government in the 21st Century

Tax and Government in the 21st Century
Author: Miranda Stewart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2022-09-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107097460

A broad, accessible, evidence-based analysis of tax law and how democratic tax states are confronting today's global digital challenges.

Artificial Intelligence, Game Theory and Mechanism Design in Politics

Artificial Intelligence, Game Theory and Mechanism Design in Politics
Author: Tshilidzi Marwala
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2023-08-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9819951038

This book explores how AI and mechanism design can provide a new framework for international politics. The international political system is all manners in which countries, governments and people relate. Mechanism design in international politics relates to identifying rules that define relationships between people and countries that achieve a particular outcome, e.g., peace or more trade or democracy or economic development. Artificial intelligence is technique of making machines intelligent. This book explores mechanism design and artificial intelligence in international politics and applies these technologies to politics, economy and society. This book will be of interest to scholars of international relations, politics, sustainable development, and artificial intelligence.

Research Handbook on International Taxation

Research Handbook on International Taxation
Author: Yariv Brauner
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages: 416
Release: 2020-12-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1788975375

Capturing the core challenges faced by the international tax regime, this timely Research Handbook assesses the impacts of these challenges on a range of stakeholders, evaluating various paths to reform at a time when international tax policy is a topic high on politicians’ agendas.