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An autonomous system consists of one or more physical or virtual agents that can perform tasks without continuous hu-man guidance. In order to realise their promise, techniques for making such autonomous systems scrutable and transpar-ent are therefore required. To address this issue the Scrutable Autonomous Systems (SAsSy) demo shows how argumen-tation and natural language can be combined to generate a human understandable dialog explaining the operation of an autonomous system. On the one hand argumentation theory is used to simulate human understandable reasoning mech-anisms. On the other, natural language generation tools are used to translate logical statements into simple plain English. The idea is to generate a dialog that enables the user to un-derstand and question the reasoning present in autonomous systems