About the event: AI-enabled decision systems are moving from labs to operations across military commands, intelligence analysis, crisis management, and clinical settings. The question is no longer if machines will inform high-stakes choices, but how to understand human judgment and accountability as they do, especially as many institutions fielding these systems lack empirical baselines and governance frameworks to manage them.

The Future of Decision-Making Project (FODM), based at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation, is a multi-year international research initiative examining the human dimension of decision-making in these high-stakes domains.

FODM will host a public conference on October 28, 2026, bringing together scholars, practitioners, and operational experts to review the state of the field and future research directions. 

Please see the provisional agenda below:

• 9:00am — Welcome and Framing

• 9:15am — Keynote Address, Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan
• 10:00am — Research Presentation, Paul Larcey
• 10:35am — Break
• 10:50am — Panel: AI and the Path to Cognitive Surrender, Brad Boyd, Lt. Gen. Jack Shanahan, Jackie Schneider
• 11:40am — Military Decision-making and AI, LTC Indrek Sarap
• 12:15pm — Lunch
• 1:00pm — Command by Algorithm? AI-DSS and the Allocation of Battlefield Risk, Andrew Bell, Jackie Schneider
• 1:35pm — When Uncertainty Expands Authority: How AI Workflows Can Reduce Scrutiny, Eli Talbert
• 2:10pm — Preventing Free Rein and Nominal Rein: Disaggregated Civilian Harm Reporting, Daniel Lucuix
• 2:45pm — Break
• 3:00pm — AI Supported Professional Judgment: Explaining Situated Human-Machine Decision-making, Tim Jones
• 3:35pm — The Aid Sector at Machine Speed: AI and the Future of Humanitarian Decision-making, Rachel George
• 4:10pm — Nudging and Boosting Cognitive Competences to Improve Decision-making, Anja Dannewitz, Frank Flemisch
• 4:45pm — Closing Remarks
   

This event is free and open to the public. Prior registration is required.

 All CISAC events are scheduled using the Pacific Time Zone.

No filming or recording without express permission from speaker.