Responsible Software Engineering

Abstract

Software trustworthiness today is more about acceptance than technical quality; software and its features must be comprehensible and explainable. Since software becomes more and more a public good, software quality becomes a critical concern for human society. And insofar artificial intelligence (AI) has become part of our daily lives-naturally we use language assistants or automatic translation programs-software quality is evolving and has to take into account usability, transparency as well as safety and security. Indeed, a majority worldwide rejects currently the use of AI in schools, in court or in the army because it is afraid of data misuse or heteronomy. Insofar, software and its applications can succeed only if people trust them. The initiatives towards “responsible software engineering” address these concerns. This publication is about raising awareness for responsible software engineering.