Engineering Digital Systems for Humanity: Challenges and Opportunities

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2406.09065v1
• Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2024 12:53:59 GMT
• Title: Engineering Digital Systems for Humanity: Challenges and Opportunities
• Authors: Martina De Sanctis, Paola Inverardi, Patrizio Pelliccione,
• Abstract summary: Social and human values, besides the traditional software behaviour and quality, are recognized as important for sustainability and long-term well-being. We identify macro and technological challenges and opportunities of present and future digital systems that should be engineered for humanity.
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• Abstract: As testified by new regulations like the European AI act, the worries about the societal impact of (autonomous) software technologies are becoming of public concern. Social and human values, besides the traditional software behaviour and quality, are increasingly recognized as important for sustainability and long-term well-being. In this paper, we identify the macro and technological challenges and opportunities of present and future digital systems that should be engineered for humanity. Our specific perspective in identifying the challenges is to focus on humans and on their role in their co-existence with digital systems. The first challenge considers humans in a proactive role when interacting with the digital systems, i.e., taking initiative in making things happening instead of reacting to events. The second concerns humans having an active role in the interaction with the digital systems i.e., on humans that interact with digital systems as a reaction to events. The third challenge focuses on humans that have a passive role i.e., they experience, enjoy or even suffer the decisions and/or actions of digital systems. Two further transversal challenges are considered: the duality of trust and trustworthiness and the compliance to legislation that both may seriously affect the deployment and use of digital systems.

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