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Because of the growing publicity about software that is labelled “Artificial Intelligence“ (AI), and the many warnings that AI can be dangerous, there is increasing demand that governments and international organizations regulate the use of AI. To write useful regulations, we must understand why AI software has always been, and always will be, untrustworthy. We must also understand why it will be very difficult to regulate AI software as such.

Stricter regulation of software that is important to its users is badly needed and long overdue. Safety regulations for critical software will also protect us against potentially dangerous “AI”. A set of properties that should be required of all critical computer systems and can be the basis of useful regulations is proposed.

Bio: David Lorge Parnas began studying professional software development in 1969. He is best known for the concept of information hiding, methods of precise software documentation, and advocacy for professionalism. He taught at Carnegie Mellon, the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, McMaster University, the University of Limerick among others. He has received four honorary doctorates and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the Royal Irish Academy, the Canadian Academy of Engineering, the Gesellschaft für Informatik, the ACM and the IEEE.

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