The AI Act and The Agile Safety Plan

Thor Myklebust is a Senior Research Scientist at SINTEF Digital. He has extensive experience as a research leader and project manager at both the national and international level and is considered a leading safety expert with 30 years of experience in industry, certification, and research.

Tor Stålhane has been working with software safety for 40 years. As a professor, he taught software engineering at NTNU and has been cooperating with SINTEF on research and consultancy related to agility and software safety for 20 years.

Dorthea Mathilde Kristin Vatn works as a Research Scientist at SINTEF Digital. With her background from psychology, human factors and information systems, her research is directed towards questions concerning how interactions between people and technology relate to both safety and cybersecurity, as well as other business outcomes.

1. Introduction to the Book.- 2. The Agile Safety Plan.- 3. Definition of the System, Operational Design Domain, and Concept of Operation.- 4. Hardware/Chip.- 5. Software and Data.- 6. Artificial Intelligence (AI).- 7. Stakeholders and Organizations.- 8. Compliance with Regulations, AI and Functional Safety Standards.- 9. Planning Tests, Analysis, Scenarios, Verification, Validation, and Regression.- 10. Software and AI Lifecycles.- 11. Tools, Programming Languages, and Pre-existing Software.- 12. Hazards and Risks.- 13. Requirements.- 14. System Design Plan.- 15. Documentation, Information, and Work Products.- 16. Human Aspects.- 17. Level of Automation and Autonomy.- 18. A Process to Prepare Safety Cases.- 19. Procurement and Subcontractors.