Executive Summary
Examining machine confidence thresholds, human-in-the-loop validation, and legal liability in real-time air defence.
Strategic Implications & Key Takeaways
- Human cognitive capacity degrades during multi-vector hypersonic engagements, forcing reliance on algorithmic triage.
- Confidence intervals must be explicitly visualised for commanding officers rather than binary recommendations.
- Chain of command and legal accountability must remain strictly anchored to human decision authorities.
Analysis & Assessment
As engagement timelines compress from minutes to seconds, military decision-makers face severe cognitive overload.
Algorithmic decision support systems offer real-time threat prioritization, but introduce critical questions regarding automation bias and system opacity.
This monograph proposes an institutional framework for graduated human oversight based on verifiable model interpretability and strict boundary conditions.
Institutional Actions
Contributing Author
Emerging Tech Policy Unit
Computational Strategy Working Group