By Brian A. Pattengale* and Anthony D. Sabatelli** — Decades after the science-fiction visions of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Isaac Asimov’s I, Robot, artificial intelligence ("AI") is finally moving to the mainstream. Many of us use digital assistants like Apple’s Siri or Google’s Alexa every day, and we gape, with a mixture of awe and terror, over videos of the feats of robotic animals and stories over whether AI being developed at Google is displaying signs of sentience. Along with this, we have finally reached the point in the development of AI where we must confront the…
