Abstract
The increase in computational and communication power of pervasive devices is also enabling to embed increasing intelligence in devices, there included the capability to act in autonomy, and possibly interacting with each other, in order to achieve specific goals, thus leaving humans out of the decision loop. In this context, the goal of the panel is thus reasoning about the possible implications (technical, ethical, and lega) of assigning great and often critical decision power to pervasive autonomous systems.