European authorities are reportedly questioning whether manufacturers should be on the hook for the impact of factory robots on human employees and social services.
Reuters reports that a draft European Parliament motion would urge reconsideration of a wide range of issues in the age of automation.
One provision would ask whether "the most sophisticated autonomous robots could be established as having the status of electronic persons with specific rights and obligations."Another floated the possibility of funds to cover the liability of individual smart robots, while another suggested that robot owners could pay social security in order to sustain those programs […]
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