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Fabio Alonso Da Silva, Chief Technology Officer and Head of Systems at Elletrocrafts Aerospace based in the United States participated in Risk Roundup to discuss “Designing Autonomous Systems.”
Risk Roundup Webcast: Designing An Autonomous System
The Rise of Autonomous Systems
The potential of autonomous systems is exciting many across
nations. The reason is autonomy is driving innovations and revolutionizing
industries. The emerging innovative possibility of autonomy is enabling
entirely new intelligence, exploration, surveillance, and security capabilities
for the entire human environment and ecosystem, where direct human control is
not physically possible.
Depending on the underlying technology design of any potential autonomous system, it will be capable of adapting to changing conditions, learning on its own, surviving, and operating in extreme environments across the entire human ecosystem of cyberspace, aquaspace, geospace, and space. As a result, the new knowledge and technology potential has lifted many constraints and made possible broad objectives to design systems that were not possible so far. Thus, many new ideas and initiatives are emerging rapidly to explore the potential and capability of autonomous systems and the approach and processes to define and design them.
When the rise of autonomous systems that exhibit high degrees of autonomy means that they can develop and perform tasks independently from human operators and without human control, clearly, technology, process, and security vision is becoming essential for all autonomous system initiatives. This emerging disappearing role of humans could be a significant security concern if we fail to visualize where the threats could emerge.
Designing Autonomous Systems
Understandably, the design phase of autonomous systems is vital for their security outcome. It seems there are many different approaches to creating or defining autonomous systems, depending on the designer, objectives, industry, technology, processes, environment, and more. From removing human engagement to augmenting human physical and intellectual abilities, the value of all autonomous systems is going to be bound by how systems were designed to how much data is being collected and what value in terms of intelligence can be extracted from that collected data and what tasks can be performed based on the collected intelligence.
Autonomy, the power of self-governance that is being given
to machines, along with the intelligence and the ability to act independently
of direct human control and in unrehearsed conditions, is transformative. The move
from the automated machine world we are used to than the autonomous systems world
that we are defining and designing is revolutionary and evolutionary. As a
result, it is essential to clearly understand the meaning of autonomy in
intelligent machines, objectives, output, and outcome to be able to clearly define
and design autonomous systems that would protect the future of humanity.
From safety and security; to the prevention of harm and the
mitigation of risks to our collective future, many questions are emerging about
how to instill ethics, moral responsibility, explainability, and transparency to
autonomous systems. Also, questions are arising about governance, regulation,
design, development, inspection, monitoring, testing, certification, policies,
and values, and more.
There is no doubt that machine autonomy can transform the
way humans connect to their ecosystem across cyberspace, aquaspace, geospace,
and space. While this will unleash the human
power to protect, explore, and inspire because the potential to communicate and
collaborate across CAGS domains in real-time can revolutionize everything in
the human ecosystem; the time is now to evaluate what will be the meaning of intelligent
machine autonomy when clearly human autonomy is still a security threat in
itself. The time is now to begin a discussion on all these questions and more
as we begin to design autonomous systems!
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About the Guest
Fabio Alonso Da Silva is the Chief Technology Officer and Head of Systems at Elletrocrafts Aerospace based in the United States. He is experienced in the definition of product development and systems engineering, through the following activities: development of the project scope, development and certification plans of the aircraft, systems safety assessment and implementation of processes, evaluation and definition of labs, structuring of the business case, investors relations, mapping of capabilities and resources needs, product life cycle definition and analysis, and technical reporting (design, certification, and maintenance).
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work is currently focused on understanding how converging technologies and
their interconnectivity across cyberspace, aquaspace, geospace, and space (CAGS),
as well as individuals and entities across nations: their governments,
industries, organizations, and academia (NGIOA), create survival, security, and
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Cybersecurity and The Global Age. She writes about Artificial
Intelligence on Forbes.
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