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New piece on AI limits, safety & testing (joint activity testing) based on large study in 1 of Nature journals ai-frontiers.org/articles/ho…
here is a new piece, out this morning, on Aviation Safety in the US given recent events. Maybe useful beyond aviation and a reasonable brief explanation of proactive safety (and we never stop needing these).
thebulletin.org/2025/05/the-…
The first set of videos on the Foundations of Resilience Engineering is accessible here (more will be added) resiliencefoundations.github…
The Robust yet Fragile (RyF) video 2.5 in the Foundations of Resilience Engineering RE series youtube.com/watch?v=gFotUdLL… a convergennce of formal and empirical work that drives the science behind RE
New videos in Foundations of Resilience Engineering series are out. #7 Laws: of Fluency and of Stretched Systems. Empirical and Theoretical advances meet in the form of general Laws. youtube.com/watch?v=2Nc8hgEE…
new on limits of automata. contrasts what had been done to address limits (then)/how these limits affect current situation (now) to reveal conceptual lag during tubulent change
researchgate.net/publication…
DOI: 10.1177/15553434241240203
The session-An Adaptive History of Systems Engineering-is up. Its part1 of Resilience Engineering view of Systems Engineering: Deconstructing how Systems Eng. Copes with Complexity. Session has some course matieral at beginning osu.zoom.us/rec/play/ZpJ9dku…
Part2 Resilience Engineering view of Sys. Eng. is Tuesday 4/2 12:45-2pm eastern: Reconstructing Systems Eng: How Fundamentals in Resilience Engineering guide Architecting Systems when complexities/scale dominate. osu.zoom.us/j/99131130095?pw…
David Woods live at the white board
Resilience Engineering for Engineers
3/28/24 12:45-2:00 pm Eastern US
osu.zoom.us/j/99131130095?pw…
1 How Systems Engineering copes with complexity via simplifications
2 How RE Fundamentals guide Architecting Systems when complexities/scale dominate
the ultimate strange loop is when 'we are what we study' - which is all projects to develop/deploy new technology in worlds of human activity - which is all of them as they all presume to serve (some) humans purposes.
widespread misuse of corner & edge cases in design 3. 1. "Corner" means rare. Erroneous b/c challenge events regularly occur at boundaries of plans, automata & procedures (& in-error statistically too).
widespread misuse of corner & edge cases in design 4. monitor means-who & how they are adapting, & what occurs requiring adaptations. def of surprise=events that break plans in smaller or larger ways
w/ explosion of unexpected effects from deployed AI, time to remind all of (Robin) Murphy's Law: Any deployment of AI systems will fall short of target level of autonomy, creating/exacerbating the shortfall in coordination w/ responsible human roles
New see resilience engineering on layered networks provides new understanding & new architectures. Advances will be 'hijacked' by others seeking adv. producing new challenges See Th. of Graceful Extensibility. 15min youtube.com/watch?v=fbwDnpuy…
then
youtube.com/watch?v=E_Y7z8co…
SNAFU is normal-SNAFU Catching necessary, always Deploying new AI changes SNAFUs faced & ability for SNAFU catching. Can architect networks for Graceful Extensibility-poised to adapt. local ad hoc adapting by people fills gaps w/ risks researchgate.net/publication…
