Engineering adaptivity, universal autonomous systems ethics and compliance issues ISOLA’2016 - Panel discussion position paper

Abstract

This paper summarises some of the discussion held during the panel of the ISOLA’2016 conference on whether artificial systems actually adapt to unforeseen situations and whether we master autonomous adaptive systems. We focus here on three questions: (1) What is a collective adaptive system and what are the elements to consider when engineering a collective adaptive system? (2) What type of universal autonomous system can we envision and what for? and finally (3) How are we considering and integrating ethics, trust, privacy and compliance to laws and regulations in adaptive systems?.