Claire Boine is a research scholar at the Boston University School of Public Health. Equipped with a Master in public policy (Harvard University) and a Master II in European and International Law (Nantes, France), she explores issues at the intersection of policy and ethics. In particular, she studies how people’s values and beliefs influence their relation to artifacts that can be harmful to them, such as firearms, or certain new technologies. She is co-investigator on a grant by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($599,413, 36 months) to investigate shared values to support an inclusive culture of health around firearms.
Céline Castets-Renard is a Full Law Professor at the Civil Law Factulty of the Universiy of Ottawa, and a member of the Center of Law, Technology and Society. She holds the University Research Chair on Accountable AI in a global context, and the Research Chair on Law, Accountability, Social Trust in AI granted by the French Government (ANR-3IA), within the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANITI). Her research on law and technology addresses issues such data and privacy, cybersecurity, and the ethics of AI. She also studies the accountability of algorithms and automated decision-making with a sectorial approach.
Aurélie Clodic is a Research Engineer in Robotics at LAAS CNRS (team IDEA), Toulouse, France. She received her PhD in robotics in 2007 for which she elaborated and implemented ingredients for human-robot joint activity in several contexts (robot guide in a museum (www.laas.fr/robots/rackham) and robotic assistant in the framework of the COGNIRON project (www.cogniron.org and www.laas.fr/robots/jido)). Her research interests include human-robot collaborative task achievement as well as robotics architecture design (focused on decision- making and supervision) dedicated to HRI. She is the principal investigator of "toward a Framework for Joint Action" workshop series (http://fja.sciencesconf.org).
Dr. Rachid Alami is Senior Scientist at LAAS-CNRS and the head of the Robotics and InteractionS group at LAAS. He received an engineer diploma in computer science in 1978 from ENSEEIHT, a Ph.D in Robotics in 1983 from Institut National Polytechnique and an Habilitation HDR in 1996 from Paul Sabatier University. His main research contributions fall in the fields of Robot Decisional and Control Architectures, Task and motion planning, multi-robot cooperation, and human-robot interaction. He has been offered in 2019 the Academic Chair on Cognitive and Interactive Robotics at the Artificial and Natural Intelligence Toulouse Institute (ANITI).
In Love with a Corporation without Knowing It: An Asymetrical Relationship
Most areas of the law rely on the assumption on free will, which manifests in the expression of consent. We examine the nature of human emotions toward fictional characters and social robots, and question the concept of consent in the context of these unreciprocated fictional relationships. We conclude that policies need to regulate the use of social robots in order to protect consumers, and especially vulnerable ones, from an asymmetry of power between them and robotic companies. We propose different statutory and design-based solutions depending on the purpose of the robots and the type of users.
