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

TITLE=IEEE P7001: A Proposed Standard on Transparency

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Robotics and AI

VOLUME=8

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/robotics-and-ai/articles/10.3389/frobt.2021.665729

DOI=10.3389/frobt.2021.665729

ISSN=2296-9144

ABSTRACT=<p>This paper describes IEEE P7001, a new draft standard on transparency of autonomous systems<xref ref-type="fn" rid="fn1"><sup>1</sup></xref>. 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.</p>