David Woods
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Releasing the Adaptive Power of Human Systems. Likes are not endorsements.
Columbus, OH
Joined October 2015
New piece on AI limits, safety & testing (joint activity testing) based on large study in 1 of Nature journals
ai-frontiers.org
Dane A. Morey, Jul 15, 2025 — Across disciplines, bad AI predictions have a surprising tendency to make human experts perform worse.
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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
The magnitude and frequency of aviation incidents have stimulated a search for answers ranging from small fixes to extreme makeovers.
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The first set of videos on the Foundations of Resilience Engineering is accessible here (more will be added)
resiliencefoundations.github.io
Youtube - Overview
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The Robust yet Fragile (RyF) video 2.5 in the Foundations of Resilience Engineering RE series a convergennce of formal and empirical work that drives the science behind RE.
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RT @threadreaderapp: @michaelharriot Your thread is going viral! #TopUnroll 🙏🏼@QUEEN_TT for 🥇unroll.
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@michaelharriot: Although there have been discussions & articles about Project 2025, VERY FEW focus specifically on Trump's plans for Black Americans That's why I read all 922 pages of #Project2025...
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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.DOI: 10.1177/15553434241240203.
researchgate.net
PDF | Two trajectories underway transform human systems. Processes of growth/complexification have accelerated as stakeholders seek advantage from... | Find, read and cite all the research you need...
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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
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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.
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David Woods live at the white board.Resilience Engineering for Engineers.3/28/24 12:45-2:00 pm Eastern US.1 How Systems Engineering copes with complexity via simplifications.2 How RE Fundamentals guide Architecting Systems when complexities/scale dominate.
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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.
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widespread misuse of corner & edge cases in design 5. not about any cases per se; about ability to adapt how you adapt. Empowering being poised to adapt to beyond-current competence events.
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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.
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widespread misuse of corner & edge cases in design 3. not design FOR a few cases but design ability to monitor all the action in borderlands given edge area moves around & is guaranteed to be misperceived.
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widespread misuse of corner & edge cases in design 2. not edge cases, edge AREA = a borderland where variability, change and challenges intrude on competencies embedded in plans, automata & procedures.
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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).
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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.
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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
PDF | This chapter provides one input to resilience management strategies in the form of three basic patterns in how adaptive systems fail. The three... | Find, read and cite all the research you...
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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 then.
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