Institute for Assured Autonomy Seminar Series: Greg Falco

Description

Greg Falco, who will be an assistant professor jointly between the Institute for Assured Autonomy and the Civil and Systems Engineering Department starting in fall 2021, will give a talk entitled "Human-Centered Autonomy for Resilient Space Systems" as part of the Institute for Assured Autonomy Seminar Series.

Please attend the event by using the Zoom link.

Abstract:

Sustained space habitation is no longer a next-generation challenge. With NASA's Artemis Plan, the advent of the US Space Force and the "new space" sector's scrappy enthusiasm, there is serious momentum to bring humans to space for extended periods in the coming decade. We can't do this alone. We'll need to adapt the highly automated systems we've been designing for everyday purposes to help us survive. However, if we build space-faring AI systems anything like how we have been building smart cities, we are going to have some problems. AI systems that have been designed for civil society are not built for digital or physical resilience. Largely, they have lacked human-centricity, which has been a major contributor to this challenge. At this talk, we'll discuss and raise questions about the calls for autonomous space systems, and if we do not have a track record for building safe and secure human-centric AI systems on Earth, how can we build them for space? The stakes are higher there.