Browsing by Author "Maymi, Fernando"

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Human-machine teaming and cyberspace
(Springer, 2018) Maymi, Fernando; Thomson, Robert
Artificial Intelligence is becoming the key enabler of solutions to a variety of problems including those associated with cyberspace operations. Based on our analysis of cyber threats and opportunities in the coming years, we assess it as very likely that teams consisting of humans and synthetic agents will routinely work together in many if not most organizations. To fully leverage the potential of these teams, we must continue to develop new paradigms in human-machine teaming. Specifically, we must address three areas that are currently in their infancy. Firstly, we need interfaces that allow all teammates to communicate effectively with each other and seamlessly transfer tasks among them. This must be true regardless of whether the endpoints are human or not. Secondly, we will need cybersecurity operators with broad knowledge and skills. They must know how their synthetic teammates “think,” when to task them and when to question their reports. Thirdly, our AI systems must be able to explain their decision-making processes to their human teammates. This paper provides an overview of cyberspace threats and opportunities in the next ten years and how these will impact human-machine teaming. We then apply the key lessons we have learned while working a multitude of advanced research projects at the intersection of human and AI agents to cyberspace operations. Finally, we propose areas of research that will allow humans and machines to better collaborate in the future.
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Visualizing the Tactical Ground Battlefield in the Year 2050: Workshop Report
(U.S. Army Research Laboratory, 2015) Kott, Alexander; Alberts, David; Zalman, Amy; Shakarian, Paulo; Maymi, Fernando; Wang, Cliff; Qu, Gang
This report describes the proceedings and outcomes of an Army-sponsored workshop that brought together a diverse group of intellectual leaders to envision the future of the tactical ground battlefield. The group identified and discussed the following 7 interrelated future capabilities that they felt would differentiate the battlefield of the future from current capabilities and engagements: augmented humans; automated decision making and autonomous processes; misinformation as a weapon; micro-targeting; large-scale self-organization and collective decision making; cognitive modeling of the opponent; and the ability to understand and cope in a contested, imperfect information environment. The workshop concluded that a critical challenge of the mid-21st century will involve successfully managing and integrating the collections, teams, and swarms of robots that would act independently or collaboratively as they undertook a variety of missions including the management and protection of communications and information networks and the provision of decision quality information to humans. Success in this aspect of command and control (C2) would depend upon developing new C2 concepts and approaches.