Human Cognitive Autonomy | The Republic
The Republic is a journal published by The Palantir Foundation, featuring commentary and essays on technology, national security policy, and international affairs. Keeping people on the loop in AI-driven warfare Mr. Boyd is a visiting fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. A former U.S. Army and Marine officer, he was director of AI-enabled warfighting capability development at the Defense Department’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. He holds degrees from Cambridge, UC Irvine, and the U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College. Ms. Saade is a graduate student at Stanford University and an adjunct cyber and AI policy fellow at the Institute for Security and Technology. An engraving of a centaur by the Italian Renaissance artist Marcantonio Raimondi. In modern day debates over the role of AI in warfighting, the idea of a centaur has been used positively to describe machines assisting a human operator, with the human retaining moral and cognitive agency. Credit: Metropolitan Mu
Human Cognitive Autonomy | The Republic Skip to content Essays April 1, 2025 Human Cognitive Autonomy Keeping people on the loop in AI-driven warfare By Bradley L. Boyd , Tiffany Saade Mr. Boyd is a visiting fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. A former U.S. Army and Marine officer, he was director of AI-enabled warfighting capability development at the Defense Department’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. He holds degrees from Cambridge, UC Irvine, and the U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College. Ms. Saade is a graduate student at Stanford University and an adjunct cyber and AI
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