Young People as Co-Researchers and Co-Designers of TAS THE CHALLENGE
A Non-Inclusive Tech System Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS) involve software applications, machines, and people that have the potential to take actions with little or no human supervision. We assume that trustworthy autonomous systems (TAS) will make our future better.
But WHOSE future does TAS improve? Right now, the design of TAS is not inclusive.
THE SOLUTION Co-production
Technology created to assist rarely involves those it imagines as the user in the processes of research, design and creation.
Involvement and collaboration at all stages is important in setting inclusive and equitable agendas for TAS, so together, we can create systems that matter and work for everyone. Researchers from the Universities of Sheffield and York worked with nine students from Greenacre Special School to explore how young people could be co-producers of trustworthy autonomous systems. Co-production was at the heart of the project, with Greenacre students working as co-researchers alongside social researchers and computer scientists. Greenacre students explored the idea of TRUST in a trustworthy autonomous system who is involved in the design and the creation of technology, do we trust the technology itself and are we as users trusted to have a say in the process.