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The Centre for Assuring Autonomy (CfAA) has announced a new content hub to give clinicians and other healthcare professionals the confidence, skills and training to implement AI technologies safely in healthcare environments.

This month we're spotlighting the work of Dr Sinem Getir-Yaman, a CfAA researcher whose work in safety methodologies is helping to address the question of how autonomous systems operate safely in the real world. In this Q&A, Dr Getir-Yaman introduces her latest project focused on the safety and security of advanced AI and the need for closer industry collaboration. 

What is Concept Creep and why do we need to think about it in the context of safety assurance?

Our first Centre for Assuring Autonomy Symposium brought together over 100 professionals and academics from across the engineering, safety assurance and regulatory landscape to ask - what does the future of autonomy look like?

The Centre for Assuring Autonomy and DNV, one of the world’s leading classification societies, have signed a £750k partnership agreement which will see the development of a safety assurance framework for autonomous navigation of maritime vessels.

Imagine a drone flying deep into a dark, dusty mine , no GPS, no sunlight, just walls, machinery, and maybe even a person standing in the corner. Now imagine you’re the person who has to make sure that drone doesn’t crash, doesn’t miss its path, and most importantly doesn’t hurt anyone. That’s where our work at the CfAA comes in as PhD student Nawshin Mannan Proma explains.