Can We Trust AI-Powered Real-Time Embedded Systems? (Invited Paper)

Abstract

The excellent performance of deep neural networks and machine learning algorithms is pushing the industry to adopt such a technology in several application domains, including safety-critical ones, as self-driving vehicles, autonomous robots, and diagnosis support systems for medical applications. However, most of the AI methodologies available today have not been designed to work in safety-critical environments and several issues need to be solved, at different architecture levels, to make them trustworthy. This paper presents some of the major problems existing today in AI-powered embedded systems, highlighting possible solutions and research directions to support them, increasing their security, safety, and time predictability.