Posts by Kairos Research

Kairos Research has begun work on a new project funded by the Army Research Institute (ARI) entitled, “Counterfactuals as a Mechanism for Mindset Effects in Achievement” (COMMA). The project will investigate how thoughts about “what might have been,” known as counterfactual thoughts, can help or hinder individuals’ progress in learning and skill development over time.…

The Air Force Research Laboratory has awarded Kairos Research a Phase 1 SBIR contract to explore the use of large language models (LLMs) for measuring the impact of information operations in contested environments. Information operations (IO) extend beyond the physical battlefield and include efforts to shape attitudes, beliefs, and opinions, often through the control of narratives—…

Kairos Research Principal Research Scientist Dr. Amy Summerville was a featured speaker at a recent event co-organized by the Uniformed Services University (USU) and Duke University. Titled, “Hospital 2.0 Summit: Creating the Digital Twin,” the event brought together military and civilian leaders from healthcare and tech to discuss the potential for AI-enabled digital models to…

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…