EU report recommending new Civil Law Rules on Robotics

IMO this document pushes for some seriously misguided legislation due to sensationalist characterization of the technology by the media. Consider for example:

> 59. f) creating a specific legal status for robots in the long run, so that at least the most sophisticated autonomous robots could be established as having the status of electronic persons responsible for making good any damage they may cause, and possibly applying electronic personality to cases where robots make autonomous decisions or otherwise interact with third parties independently;