Please enjoy this blog post authored by Dr. Megan Ma, Research Fellow and the Associate Director of the Stanford Program in Law, Science, and Technology and the Stanford Center for Legal Informatics (CodeX), Stanford Law School. At the face of new technologies, the question of liability frequently surfaces as the technology moves beyond an initial state of fascination. We have seen this historically, and most recently, with self-driving and/or autonomous vehicles. Yet, what often underpins the question of liability is the notion of agency, and importantly, how human intervention (i.e., human-in-the-loop) can and should change. Put differently, when humans ...