International Defence Excellence and Security Symposium

Best of Both Worlds: Human-AI Teaming for Effective Decision-Making

With its ubiquitous application and transformative potential, AI holds the promise of delivering both incremental and profound changes in many aspects of our society. However, AI (or automation or machine intelligence more broadly) is not a silver bullet for eliminating human errors when information processing and timely decision-making demands exceed the capacity of human operators. Many AI-enabled systems operate in environments that are not specifiable a priori. Further, there will always be environments (e.g., for missile and air defense operations) in which data come from multiple sources, including new or partially unreliable ones, and where the integrity of data sources and AI processes and outputs cannot be fully trusted. The problem of trustworthy AI and thus human-AI teaming (HAT) is complex and multidimensional and it is largely dependent on both effective human-machine interaction and robust, reliable AI systems. To achieve the full HAT potential for C2 operations, there is the need for mutual trust between human operators and AI-enabled decision aids in the context of wide area surveillance, advanced training systems, and after-action analysis, etc. With such trusted partnership, a persistent and reliable HAT decision support capability will help enable and ensure HAT capabilities and thus achieve information dominance and decision superiority.

The specific objective of this symposium is to discuss and demonstrate innovative concepts, methodologies, and technologies as potential solutions to address trustworthy issues in HAT for effective decision-making. Presentations are expected to provide trustworthy tools that demonstrate effective HAT in defence and security C2 operations that results in timely responses and trusted and verifiable AI decisions. These tools should have been developed based on scientific excellence and support C2 human operators for the test, evaluation, and audit of AI enabled decisions. These tools should be related to broad defence and security contexts such as advanced C2, training, and after-action analysis systems for continental surveillance, etc.

This is an invitation to stakeholders in academics, defence research institutions, industrial and commercial organizations, and the military to attend and/or offer ideas and experience in the development of requirements, methodologies, and technologies of trustworthy HAT for effective C2 decision-making and training.