Autonomous systems are on the verge of widespread use, but there are significant challenges to ensuring their safe and appropriate development, deployment, and application. The authors argue that autonomous systems cannot, in general, be regulated using traditional performance standards. They contend that these systems should instead be evaluated by a staged, iterative regulatory approach similar to that for pharmaceuticals and medical devices. This article outlines some features of such a system.
Danks et al. (Sun,) studied this question.