Ryan Abbott 
Ryan Abbott, MD, JD, MTOM, PhD, is Professor of Law and Health Sciences at the School of Law, University of Surrey, and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Medicine at UCLA. A physician and patent attorney, Abbott’s research on law and technology has helped shape the international dialogue on these topics. He has served as an expert for the World Health Organization, the World Intellectual Property Organization, the European Commission, and the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Abbott also spearheaded the first patent applications to disclose inventions made autonomously by an AI. In 2019, he was named one of the 50 most influential people in Intellectual Property by Managing IP magazine.
He is author of The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law.
He is author of The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law.
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www.RyanAbbott.com
www.RyanAbbott.com
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Ryan Abbott joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how any development of a body of laws focused on digital leverage and artificial intelligence won’t work if we don’t create and subscribe to a parallel body of digital ethics.
Ryan Abbott joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the challenges we’re increasingly having with the implications of digital leverage in society and the marketplace being governed by an analog legal system.
Ryan Abbott joins Jim Blasingame to discuss how our analog legal systems were never designed to deal with the issues created by the products of digital leverage that’s disconnected from its creator.
Books by Ryan Abbott
AI and people do not compete on a level-playing field. Self-driving vehicles may be safer than human drivers, but laws often penalize such technology. People may provide superior customer service, but businesses are automating to reduce their taxes. AI may innovate more effectively, but an antiquated legal framework constrains inventive AI.
In The Reasonable Robot, Ryan Abbott argues that the law should not discriminate between AI and human behavior and proposes a new legal principle that will ultimately improve human well-being. This work should be read by anyone interested in the rapidly evolving relationship between AI and the law.
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