Last month the Assuring Autonomy International Programme (AAIP) became the newest member of the Australian Alliance for Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare (AAAiH).

Free access to new AAIP research paper exploring the perspectives of an ethicist, doctor, lawyer, engineer and two safety academics, after they met and talked about autonomy, artificial intelligence and safety.

AAIP's Dr Radu Calinescu is a Program Co-Chair and Dr Simos Gerasimou is a publicity co-chair for the 15th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems (SEAMS 2020). The Call for Papers is now out - the abstract deadline submission date is 10 January 2020.

Boeing may never have conceived the Boeing 737 's Manoeuvring Characteristics Augmentation System as an autonomous system. In effect, however, it was autonomous: it took decisions about stall without involving the pilots.

Dr Radu Calinescu is a guest editor on upcoming special edition

Human control of artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous systems (AS) is always possible — but the questions are: what form of control is possible, and how is control assured?