Because Journal of Robotics is an open access journal, it charges an "article processing fee" of $500 to cover its costs (details). You are only charged if your submissions is accepted and printed by the journal.
Update: The Singularity Institute will reimburse you for your article processing fee if we think the article you're submitting is worthwhile. Contact luke [at] singularity.org for details.
I've never seen any type of restriction on who can submit to a journal (have you?), so my confident answer is yes. Your life will be easier if you're associated with some people who have academic-publishing experience, certainly.
The open-access Journal of Robotics has posted the Call for Papers for an upcoming "Special Issue on Robotic Safety & Security."
One of the guest editors for this issue is Roman Yampolskiy, a past SI visiting fellow and author or co-author of several papers on AI risk: Leakproofing the Singularity, Artificial General Intelligence and the Human Mental Model, and Safety Engineering for Artificial General Intelligence.
Check the PDF for full details, but:
Because Journal of Robotics is an open access journal, it charges an "article processing fee" of $500 to cover its costs (details). You are only charged if your submissions is accepted and printed by the journal.
Update: The Singularity Institute will reimburse you for your article processing fee if we think the article you're submitting is worthwhile. Contact luke [at] singularity.org for details.