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What is Autonomous Decision Systems

Definition

Autonomous decision systems are AI-driven systems that make and execute decisions independently within defined boundaries, sensing their environment, evaluating options, and acting without human intervention for the situations they are authorised to handle.

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Make and execute decisions independently within set boundaries
Respond instantly without waiting for human input
Scale decision-making across high volumes consistently
Free people to handle only exceptions and high-stakes cases

Glossary: Real-Time Decisioning

Real World Example

A cloud platform's autonomous decision system automatically scales resources up and down in response to live demand, making and executing capacity decisions within set limits without any human operator.

FAQs

What defines an autonomous decision system?

It independently senses, evaluates, and acts on decisions within authorised boundaries, without human intervention.

What keeps autonomous systems safe?

Defined boundaries, guardrails, monitoring, and escalation of cases outside their authorised scope to humans.

Where are they used?

In areas like infrastructure autoscaling, trading, fraud blocking, and other high-volume, well-bounded decisions.