本标准广泛适用于所有自治系统，包括物理和非物理系统。前者的例子包括配备自动驾驶系统或辅助生活（护理）机器人的车辆。后者的例子包括医疗诊断（推荐）系统或聊天机器人。本标准特别关注的是具有潜在危害的自治系统。因此，安全关键系统在范围内。本标准考虑在范围内有能力直接造成身体、心理、社会、经济或环境或声誉损害的系统。损害也可能是间接的，例如未经授权的人获取机密数据或？无受害人犯罪？这对任何人都没有特别的影响，但却对社会或环境产生了影响。 使用机器学习的智能自主系统也在范围之内。考虑到整个系统的透明度，用于培训此类系统的数据集也在本标准的范围内。 该标准提供了一个框架，帮助自主系统的开发人员审查这些系统的功能，并在需要时将其设计为更透明的功能。该框架规定了这些功能的要求、它们给系统带来的透明度，以及如何证明它们以确定是否符合本标准。 未来的标准可能会选择专注于特定的应用或技术领域。本标准旨在作为a？雨伞？制定特定领域标准的标准（例如，自动驾驶汽车、医疗或保健技术的透明度标准等）。 本标准不向设计师提供如何在其系统中设计透明度的建议。相反，它定义了一组可测试的透明度级别和一组标准的要求，以满足这些级别中的每一个。 不能假设透明度。 一个设计良好的系统可能并不透明。许多设计良好的系统并不透明。自治系统，以及设计、验证和操作它们的过程，只有在设计成自治系统时才是透明的。此外，还需要测试、测量和比较不同系统中不同透明度水平的方法。 请注意，系统透明度（一个系统对另一个系统的透明度）不在本标准的范围内。然而，本文件确实涉及工程过程的透明度。关于自治系统内子系统如何交互的透明度也在本标准的范围内。

This standard is broadly applicable to all autonomous systems, including both physical and non-physical systems. Examples of the former include vehicles with automated driving systems or assisted living (care) robots. Examples of the latter include medical diagnosis (recommender) systems or chatbots. Of particular interest to this standard are autonomous systems that have the potential to cause harm. Safety-critical systems are therefore within scope. This standard considers systems that have the capacity to directly cause either physical, psychological, societal, economic or environmental, or reputational harm, as within scope. Harm might also be indirect, such as unauthorized persons gaining access to confidential data or "victimless crimes" that affect no-one in particular yet have an impact upon society or the environment. Intelligent autonomous systems that use machine learning are also within scope. The data sets used to train such systems are also within the scope of this standard when considering the transparency of the system as a whole. This standard provides a framework to help developers of autonomous systems both review and, if needed, design features into those systems to make them more transparent. The framework sets out requirements for those features, the transparency they bring to a system, and how they would be demonstrated in order to determine conformance with this standard. Future standards may choose to focus on specific applications or technology domains. This standard is intended as an "umbrella" standard from which domain-specific standards might develop (for instance, standards for transparency in autonomous vehicles, medical or healthcare technologies, etc.). This standard does not provide the designer with advice on how to design transparency into their system. Instead, it defines a set of testable levels of transparency and a standard set of requirements that shall be met in order to satisfy each of these levels. Transparency cannot be assumed. An otherwise well-designed system may not be transparent. Many well-designed systems are not transparent. Autonomous systems, and the processes by which they are designed, validated, and operated, will only be transparent if this is designed into them. In addition, methods for testing, measuring, and comparing different levels of transparency in different systems are needed. Note that system-system transparency (transparency of one system to another) is out of scope for this standard. However, this document does address the transparency of the engineering process. Transparency regarding how subsystems within an autonomous system interact is also within the scope of this standard.