Synchronizing Collaborations for Human-Autonomy Teaming and Ethical Autonomy Use (Clemson University)
Abstract
As autonomous technologies advance and approach real-world application, numerous ethical concerns and questions have surrounded these novel technologies. While broadly impacting society, these ethical concerns are especially impactful to human-autonomy teaming settings where humans directly collaborate with autonomy, and these settings are a critical research area for DoD-funded research. As such, the Team Research and Analytics in Computational Environments (TRACE) Research Group at Clemson University has spent numerous years theoretically exploring how ethics will impact Human-Autonomy Teams (HATs) and empirically documenting the direct impact that ethical and unethical autonomous teammates have on their human teammates and HATs. As a result of this fundamental work, TRACE Research Group has demonstrated that the ethics of autonomous teammates must be a paramount consideration in the field of human-autonomy teaming. In response to these and other findings, the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR) and the Air Force Research Labs (AFRL) held a recent workshop that explicitly encouraged the continued exploration of ethical autonomy and ethical HATs. TRACE Research Group has formed a collaboration with the United States Air Force Academy’s Warfighter Efficiency Research Center at the United States Air Force Academy, which has been coined Collaborations for Human-Autonomy Teaming and Ethical Autonomy Use (CHATEAU). In response to this recent workshop, CHATEAU has created aggressive research goals to broadly ensure the ethical use of autonomy and, more specifically, in HATs. Unfortunately, TRACE Research Group lacks the specific research capabilities to meet these aggressive research goals. As such, this Defense University Research Instrumentation Program (DURIP) proposal will provide the hardware needed for TRACE Research Group to meet these goals individually and collaboratively through CHATEAU.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Mar 07, 2024
- Source ID
- FA95502310624
Entities
People
- Nathan McNeese
Organizations
- Air Force Office of Scientific Research
- Clemson University
- United States Air Force