Paper Info
Title
Strictly Human: Limitations of Autonomous Systems
Abstract
Can autonomous systems replace humans in the performance of their activities? How does the answer to this question inform the design of autonomous systems?  The study of technical systems and their features should be preceded by the study of the activities in which they play roles. Each activity can be described by its overall goals, governing norms and the intermediate steps which are taken to achieve the goals and to follow the norms. This paper uses the activity realist approach to conceptualize autonomous systems in the context of human activities. By doing so, it first argues for epistemic and logical conditions that illustrate the limitations of autonomous systems in tasks which they can and cannot perform, and then, it discusses the ramifications of the limitations of system autonomy on the design of autonomous systems.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1007/s11023-021-09582-7
Minds and Machines
Keywords
DocType
Volume
System autonomy, Design, Activity realism, Objectivity, Regulation
Journal
32
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0924-6495
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
8
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sadjad Soltanzadeh100.34