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Professor Vasant Dhar's work on artificial intelligence is highlighted

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Excerpt from NPR -- "To see how quickly the rising tide of 'effective AI' may smash into daily life, consider the legal ramifications of machines behaving in ways we don't understand. How do we create regulations (i.e. robot law) when the possibility of robot decisions we don't understand must be included. As Dhar asks, 'Who is responsible for the actions of a robot that designs itself and learns to get better over time?' Better yet, who is responsible if a network of robots, acting in a way consistent with their design, carries out actions that turn dangerous — or even deadly?"

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