Posts by Kairos Research

Human insight remains the gold standard in many knowledge curation tasks. At the same time, rapid advances in AI – in particular large language models (LLMs) – have the potential to augment and complement human expertise, allowing for the rapid curation of large datasets at scale. To explore the promise of human-AI interaction in large-scale…

Kairos Research, together with our partners Wright State University, Sinclair Community College, and the Dayton Entrepreneurs’ Center, recently kicked off a new project aimed at detecting and mitigating fatigue and other sub-optimal cognitive states (such as inattentiveness) in contexts ranging from long-haul air and space flight to unmanned aerial systems (UAS) operations. The Kairos-led team…

A team of researchers from Kairos Research (Dr. Amy Summerville, Dr. Cara Widmer, Dr. Brandon Minnery, and consultants Dr. Ion Juvina and Dr. SubashiniGanapathy) has published an article in a special issue of the journal Decision focused on judgment and decision research involving “wisdom of crowds.” The paper presents research conducted as part of the team’s work on IARPA’s Hybrid…

Kairos Research has kicked off a new DARPA project as a member of a team led by Raytheon BBN Technologies. DARPA’s “In the Moment” program aims to develop AI algorithms whose decision-making attributes align with those of trusted humans experts. Models of human decision-making in difficult domains (i.e., domains where there is no agreed upon…

While the problem of misinformation on social media has recently attracted much attention, such misinformation – whether spread unknowingly or deliberately (i.e., disinformation) – represents only one type of online threat. More broadly, foreign adversaries may seek to shape online narratives surrounding specific geopolitical issues and events to fit their agendas. These narratives often propagate…

Kairos Research recently embarked on an ambitious R&D effort as part of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA) GEOGCOG program. According to NGA’s website, “the objective of GEOCOG is to leverage advances in behavioral and cognitive neuroscience to develop low-cost, unobtrusive methods to measure, estimate and model analysts’ behaviors and cognitive states during human–machine teaming.” Kairos…

Kairos Research has joined forces with North Carolina State University’s Laboratory for Analytic Sciences (LAS) to study the impact of AI-based automation on human cognition and performance in intelligence analysis. The collaborative project, titled Assessing Latent Cognitive States in Human-Machine Teams, will examine the interplay between trust (i.e., the level of trust a human analyst…

Kairos Research recently kicked off a new project in support of the Air Force Research Laboratory’s (AFRL’s) Airman Readiness Medical Research (ARMR) portfolio. The new effort involves analyzing diverse human performance datasets collected by different research groups within the Airman Biosciences Division (RHB) of AFRL’s Airman Systems Directorate, which is a key component of the…

Kairos Research has been awarded a contract with the Air Force to begin Phase 2 of the Automated analysis of Supplier Capability for Ensuring National Dominance (ASCEND) project. ASCEND seeks to develop new AI-powered business intelligence tools that will enable DoD procurement professionals to better understand and engage with the large ecosystem of manufacturers comprising…

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has a long tradition of scientific and technical innovation. Maintaining this edge requires the identification and cultivation of Emerging Technology Leaders (ETLs) at the officer level, as well as optimal allocation of technical expertise (both military and civilian) across the broader DoD enterprise. However, of the nearly 300,000 scientists…