IEEE P7001: a proposed standard on transparency

Alan F. T. Winfield; Serena Booth; Louise A. Dennis; Takashi Egawa; Helen Hastie; Naomi Jacobs; Roderick I. Muttram; Joanna I. Olszewska; Fahimeh Rajabiyazdi; Andreas Theodorou; Mark A. Underwood; Robert H. Wortham; Eleanor Watson

doi:10.3389/frobt.2021.665729

IEEE P7001: a proposed standard on transparency

Alan F. T. Winfield^*
, Serena Booth
, Louise A. Dennis
, Takashi Egawa
, Helen Hastie
, Naomi Jacobs
, Roderick I. Muttram
, Joanna I. Olszewska
, Fahimeh Rajabiyazdi
, Andreas Theodorou
, Mark A. Underwood
, Robert H. Wortham
, Eleanor Watson

^*Corresponding author for this work

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This paper describes IEEE P7001, a new draft standard on transparency of autonomous systems. In the paper, we outline the development and structure of the draft standard. We present the rationale for transparency as a measurable, testable property. We outline five stakeholder groups: users, the general public and bystanders, safety certification agencies, incident/accident investigators and lawyers/expert witnesses, and explain the thinking behind the normative definitions of "levels" of transparency for each stakeholder group in P7001. The paper illustrates the application of P7001 through worked examples of both specification and assessment of fictional autonomous systems.

Original language	English
Article number	665729
Journal	Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Volume	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.665729
Publication status	Published - 26 Jul 2021

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Keywords

AI ethics
autonomous systems
explainability
robot ethics
transparency

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