On Specifying for Trustworthiness
It addresses the foundational problem of defining trustworthiness specifications for autonomous systems, which is crucial for their safe integration into society, but is incremental as it synthesizes existing workshop insights.
This roadmap paper identifies key challenges for specifying trustworthiness in autonomous systems across domains like resilience, trust, and security, based on a workshop from the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems programme.
As autonomous systems (AS) increasingly become part of our daily lives, ensuring their trustworthiness is crucial. In order to demonstrate the trustworthiness of an AS, we first need to specify what is required for an AS to be considered trustworthy. This roadmap paper identifies key challenges for specifying for trustworthiness in AS, as identified during the "Specifying for Trustworthiness" workshop held as part of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) programme. We look across a range of AS domains with consideration of the resilience, trust, functionality, verifiability, security, and governance and regulation of AS and identify some of the key specification challenges in these domains. We then highlight the intellectual challenges that are involved with specifying for trustworthiness in AS that cut across domains and are exacerbated by the inherent uncertainty involved with the environments in which AS need to operate.