AI Safety: An Action Plan for the Navy

Abstract

In light of the Navys stated commitment to using AI, and given the strategic importance of AI safety, we provide the Navy with a first step towards a comprehensive approach to safety. We use a risk management approach to frame our treatment of AI safety risks: identifying risks, analyzing them, and suggesting concrete actions for the Navy to begin addressing them. The first type of safety risk, being technical in nature, will require a collaborative effort with industry and academia to address. The second type of risk, associated with specific military missions, can be addressed in a combination of military experimentation, research, and concept development to find ways to promote effectiveness along with safety. For each types of risk, we use examples to show concrete ways of managing and reducing the risk of AI applications. We then discuss institutional changes that would help promote safety in the Navys AI efforts.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 2019
Accession Number
AD1083268

Entities

People

  • Larry Lewis

Organizations

  • Center for Naval Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Cyber
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artificial Intelligence Software
  • Autonomous Systems
  • Autonomous Weapons
  • Business Administration
  • Command And Control
  • Computational Science
  • Computers
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Military Applications
  • Military History
  • Military Operations
  • National Security
  • Navy
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy