Who is responsible for accidents in highly automated systems? How do we apportion liability among the various participants in complex socio-technical organisations? How can different liability regulations at different levels (supranational, national, local) be harmonized? How do we provide for accountability, while promoting safety? These and other questions are being addressed by the ALIAS (Addressing Liability in Automated Systems) project, which is co-financed by EUROCONTROL on behalf of the SESAR Joint Undertaking as part of Work Package E. The project focuses on the legal implications of automation – exploring the wide spectrum of relations between automation and liability, focusing on Air Traffic Management (ATM), but also considering various domains that face similar issues, such as HealthCare, ICT, Train Transport, Navy, automotive industry, etc. The paper presents the outline framework of the project, its objectives, and the initial steps being taken to create an online multidisciplinary “community of practice” around the relationships between liability and automation in socio-technical systems.
Liability and automation: issues and challenges for socio-technical systems
SARTOR, GIOVANNI;CONTISSA, GIUSEPPE
2011
Abstract
Who is responsible for accidents in highly automated systems? How do we apportion liability among the various participants in complex socio-technical organisations? How can different liability regulations at different levels (supranational, national, local) be harmonized? How do we provide for accountability, while promoting safety? These and other questions are being addressed by the ALIAS (Addressing Liability in Automated Systems) project, which is co-financed by EUROCONTROL on behalf of the SESAR Joint Undertaking as part of Work Package E. The project focuses on the legal implications of automation – exploring the wide spectrum of relations between automation and liability, focusing on Air Traffic Management (ATM), but also considering various domains that face similar issues, such as HealthCare, ICT, Train Transport, Navy, automotive industry, etc. The paper presents the outline framework of the project, its objectives, and the initial steps being taken to create an online multidisciplinary “community of practice” around the relationships between liability and automation in socio-technical systems.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
