Posts by Kairos Research

Kairos Research has been awarded a contract by the Office of Naval Research to develop a web-based tool and app for detecting Twitter “bot” accounts. Bots are synthetic accounts designed to mimic human behavior and influence opinion on social media, often by spreading “fake news” and other forms of misinformation. To combat this problem, Kairos…

Kairos Research has been awarded a contract by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop new methods for detecting group-level cognitive dissonance. Cognitive dissonance is a psychological phenomenon wherein a person or community holds two or more beliefs that are in conflict. Cognitive dissonance may be especially pronounced during periods of rapid societal…

Kairos Research has been awarded a contract with Wright State University to apply cutting-edge artificial intelligence (AI) methods to fundamentally change the way human performance data are analyzed. Kairos will partner with investigators at Wright State University and Kansas State University to leverage “contextual AI” techniques to reason about sources of error (a.k.a. residuals) in…

C.S. Lewis argued “we can never know what might have been, but what is to come is another matter entirely.” Nevertheless, counterfactual thoughts about “what might have been” are an essential part of everyday reasoning. Intelligence analysts especially rely on counterfactual reasoning to improve future practices following any failures (i.e., to answer the question: “What…

When asked to predict the future, a wise individual from a galaxy far, far away once said, “Difficult to see; always in motion is the future.” What Yoda understood is that the complex and dynamic nature of real-world events requires a sophisticated approach to forecasting. Recently Kairos Research was tapped by Raytheon-BBN Technologies to help…