Roger is a partner at Bird & Bird LLP in London and San Francisco and Honorary Professor in Law at Nottingham University. Bird & Bird LLP is an international law firm specializing in Tech and digital transformation.
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26 October 2018
The development of AI weapons systems is a chilling prospect. The European Parliament has recently demanded the start of “international negotiations on a legally binding instrument prohibiting lethal...
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15 October 2017
A few weeks ago I was invited to speak at the DSEI Defence Conference (see https://www.dsei.co.uk/dsei-press-releases/dsei-2017-strategic-conferences#/). As a Tech lawyer the defence sector is not...
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19 June 2017
The Law Society in London held a stimulating debate last week (June 14th, 2017) with the splendid title "Does your machine mind? Ethics and potential bias in the law of algorithms"
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03 May 2017
The technological developments depicted in Back to the Future Part II - the one in which Marty McFly and Doc Brown travel forward from the 'reality' of 1985 to an imagined future in 2015 - seem almost...