The Six Serving Men of Functional Safety and Artificial Intelligence
Six Honest Serving Men of AI Functional Safety Foreword: This blog focuses on UK based safety regulation and serves as a precursor to the “Safety of AI: what are its special needs?” Webinar in November. “I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.” - Rudyard Kipling, Just So Stories (1902) One problem facing safety engineers in Artificial Intelligence (AI) is information curation. Due to a lack of centralised regulation, the speed at which information is produced, and the sheer quantity of redundant information that that leaves behind, I spent a lot of my “reading time” validating the information that I came across. When legislation is elusive, opinion seems to fill the gap. And in an emerging…