[SystemSafety] Elephants, dinosaurs and integrating the VLA model

[Peter Bernard Ladkin]

On 2023-08-03 02:32 , Les Chambers wrote:
> 
> Can anyone on this list refer me to where in the standards one can obtain
> guidance on how to engineer such a system safely?

That seems to be a question with a completely obvious answer.

Martyn already observed on 2023-06-27 that there are legal requirements which constrain deployment 
of safety-related systems. That legal requirement in the UK and Australia is 77 years old. Your 
question seems to be suggesting that you somehow think it, and other constraints, might no longer 
apply. Well, they do. As Martyn said "AI doesn't change that."

In the UK or Australia, developer and deployer must reduce risks ALARP.

How do you go about engineering any system such that risks are reduced ALARP, say in the UK? You 
follow sector-specific functional safety standards if there are some, as well as the engineering 
functional safety standard for E/E/PE systems, which is IEC 61508. This approach is regarded by the 
regulator, at least in the UK, as appropriate to fulfill the ALARP requirement (although of course 
the courts are the final arbiters of that).

PBL

Prof. i.R. Dr. Peter Bernard Ladkin, Bielefeld, Germany
Tel+msg +49 (0)521 880 7319  www.rvs-bi.de




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