Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence: A Threat or Savior?

Thisbook exploreshow Artificial Intelligence (AI), byleading to an increase intheautonomyofmachines and robots,isoffering opportunities for an expanded but uncertain impact on societybyhumans, machines, and robots. To help readers better understand the relationships betweenAI, autonomy,humansand machinesthatwillhelpsocietyreducehumanerrorsin theuse ofadvancedtechnologies(e.g., airplanes, trains, cars), this edited volume presents awideselection of the underlying theories, computational models, experimental methods, and field applications.While other literature deals with these topics individually, this book unifies the fields ofautonomy and AI,framing them in the broader context of effective integration for human-autonomousmachine and roboticsystems. The contributions, written byworld-class researchers and scientists,elaborateon key research topics at the heart of effective human-machine-robot-systems integration. Thesetopicsinclude, for example,computational support for intelligence analyses; the challenge of verifying today's and future autonomous systems; comparisons between today's machines and autism;implications of human information interaction on artificial intelligence and errors;systems that reason;the autonomyof machines, robots, buildings;and hybrid teams, where hybrid reflects arbitrary combinations of humans, machines androbots. The contributors spanthe field of autonomous systems research, ranging from industryandacademiatogovernment.Given thebroaddiversity of the research in this book, the editors strove to thoroughly examine the challenges and trends of systems thatimplementand exhibitAI; thesocialimplications ofpresent and future systemsmadeautonomouswith AI; systems with AI seeking todevelop trusted relationships among humans, machines, and robots; and the effective human systems integration that must result for trustin these new systemsand their applicationstoincrease and tobe sustained.