Safe AI—is this possible?

✍ Scribed by M.G. Rodd

• Book ID: 103972444
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 823 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0952-1976
• DOI: 10.1016/0952-1976(95)00010-x

✦ Synopsis

This deliberately provocative paper poses the question as to whether it is professionally acceptable to use AI-based control systems in real-time automation. The premise is that the increasing demands for improved control of industrial processes are resulting in a search for new control techniques which, it is suggested, will be based on various A1 methodologies. However, in the face of the inherently selflearning, self-adaptive nature of such techniques, it is pointed out that to produce safe, predictable systems, the controllers should be functionally deterministic/ In posing this dilemma, the paper suggests possible ways in which it may be resolved.