# Breaching the Future: Understanding Human Challenges of Autonomous Systems for the Home

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1903.01831 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.01831/

## Key facts

- Cited by 1 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 4 Mar 2019.

## Built on by (most cited first, 1 of 1)

- [Autonomous Building Cyber-Physical Systems Using Decentralized Autonomous Organizations, Digital Twins, and Large Language Model](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2410.19262/) (2024)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The domestic environment is a key area for the design and deployment of autonomous systems. Yet research indicates their adoption is already being hampered by a variety of critical issues including trust, privacy and security. This paper explores how potential users relate to the concept of autonomous systems in the home and elaborates further points of friction. It makes two contributions. One methodological, focusing on the use of provocative utopian and dystopian scenarios of future autonomous systems in the home. These are used to drive an innovative workshop-based approach to breaching experiments, which surfaces the usually tacit and unspoken background expectancies implicated in the organisation of everyday life that have a powerful impact on the acceptability of future and emerging technologies. The other contribution is substantive, produced through participants efforts to repair the incongruity or "reality disjuncture" created by utopian and dystopian visions, and highlights the need to build social as well as computational accountability into autonomous systems, and to enable coordination and control.