Chapter 14

The Future

Dependable and Trustworthy AI Systems

Ravishankar K. Iyer

Ravishankar K. Iyer

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA

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Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk

Zbigniew T. Kalbarczyk

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Coordinated Science Laboratory, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA

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Nithin M. Nakka

Nithin M. Nakka

Cisco Networking Engineering group, Cisco Systems, Inc., San Jose, California, USA

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First published: 26 April 2024

Summary

The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) systems and their ubiquitous adoption in automating tasks that involve humans in critical application domains (e.g. autonomous vehicles (AVs), medical assistants/devices, manufacturing, agriculture, and smart buildings) means that it is of paramount importance that we are able to place trust in these technologies. This chapter discusses challenges in assuring trustworthiness in AI systems and presents a model that can start to enumerate and represent the trustworthiness of a system and its components. The challenges are discussed in the context of three representative application domains for which potential advances from adopting AI technology have been demonstrated: transportation, enterprise computing systems, and healthcare. Further, the chapter provides a survey of state-of-the-art technologies that address such challenges, which span various layers of the AI system architecture, and considers their limitations to help us envision a research path toward trustworthy AI/ML systems.

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