AI Assurance Needs a Systems Engineering Approach

Robin Bloomfield (City St Georges) and John Rushby (SRI)

Position paper, ASSURE Workshop, part of 36th IEEE International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (ISSRE), Sao Paulo Brazil, October 2025. In Proceedings ISSREW pp. 157--158

Abstract

As systems become increasingly composed of AI/ML elements, the focus of assurance tends to shift from "safe use of AI" to "safe AI." In this position paper, we argue this is opposite to what is required and urge a systems engineering approach.

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BibTeX Entry

@INPROCEEDINGS{Bloomfield&Rushby:Assure25,
        AUTHOR = {Robin Bloomfield and John Rushby},
        TITLE = {{AI} Assurance Needs a Systems Engineering Approach},
        BOOKTITLE={ASSURE 2025, Proceedings of IEEE 36th
	  International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
	  Workshops (ISSREW)},
	YEAR = 2025,
	PAGES = {157--158},
	ADDRESS = {Sao Paulo, Brazil},
	MONTH = oct
}

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