When Robots Kill: Artificial Intelligence under Criminal Law

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When Robots Kill GABRIEL HALLEVY NortheasterN UNiversity Press . Boston Northeastern University Press An imprint of University Press of New England www.upne.com© 2013 Northeastern University All rights reserved Manufactured in the United States of America Designed by Vicki Kuskowski Typeset in Melior by Copperline Book Services, Inc. University Press of New England is a member of the Green Press Initiative. The paper used in this book meets their minimum requirement for recycled paper. For permission to reproduce any of the material in this book, contact Permissions, University Press of New England, One Court Street, Suite 250, Lebanon NH 03766; or visit www.upne.com Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Halevi, Gavri’el. When robots kill : artificial intelligence under criminal law / Gabriel Hallevy. pages cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978–1–55553–801–9 (cloth) — ISBN 978–1–55553–805–7 (pbk.) — ISBN 978–1–55553–806–4 (ebook) (print) 1. Criminal liability. 2. Artificial intelligence—Law and legislation—Criminal provisions. I. Title. K5070.H35 2013 345'.0252—dc23 2012033518 5 4 3 2 1 to my dear family And God said, let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. —GeNesis 1:26–27 ...