The Future of Collaborative Human-Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making for Mission Planning

Sue E Kase; Chou P Hung; Tomer Krayzman; James Z Hare; B Christopher Rinderspacher; Simon M Su

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.850628

The Future of Collaborative Human-Artificial Intelligence Decision-Making for Mission Planning

Front Psychol. 2022 Apr 4:13:850628. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.850628. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Sue E Kase¹, Chou P Hung¹, Tomer Krayzman^{1

2

3}, James Z Hare⁴, B Christopher Rinderspacher¹, Simon M Su^{1

5}

Affiliations

¹ U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command - Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD, United States.
² Oak Ridge Affiliated Universities, Oak Ridge, TN, United States.
³ Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, United States.
⁴ U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command - Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, United States.
⁵ National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, United States.

Abstract

In an increasingly complex military operating environment, next generation wargaming platforms can reduce risk, decrease operating costs, and improve overall outcomes. Novel Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled wargaming approaches, based on software platforms with multimodal interaction and visualization capacity, are essential to provide the decision-making flexibility and adaptability required to meet current and emerging realities of warfighting. We highlight three areas of development for future warfighter-machine interfaces: AI-directed decisional guidance, computationally informed decision-making, and realistic representations of decision spaces. Progress in these areas will enable development of effective human-AI collaborative decision-making, to meet the increasing scale and complexity of today's battlespace.

Keywords: Augmented/mixed reality; artificial intelligence; decision-making; interface; visualization; wargaming and wargames.