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.

What makes a science and innovation cluster thrive, and how can regions scale their global impact? This seminar explores two of the world’s leading innovation clusters, Tokyo-Yokohama and China’s Greater Bay Area, ranked among the top clusters in WIPO’s Global Innovation Cluster Index. Drawing on interviews and new reports from the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT), Executive Director Dr. Andreas Göthenberg will share perspectives from STINT’s Science Intelligence work on global science and innovation, followed by presentations from Dr. Laura Barbieri and Dr. Erik Forsberg on the ecosystems, strengths, and development trajectories of these two regions.

Speakers:

Dr. Andreas Göthenberg was appointed Executive Director of STINT as of September 1, 2009. And since 2024, he has been a Board Member at the Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, in 1996 and 2003, respectively. 

From 2006 until 2009, he was a Science and Technology Attaché at the Embassy of Sweden in Tokyo, Japan. Before that, he worked as a Center Manager and Senior Researcher in China, setting up joint research and education centers for KTH Royal Institute of Technology at Zhejiang University and Fudan University.
 

Dr. Laura Barbieri is a STINT Science Fellow in Japan and South Korea. Based in Tokyo, she is currently a Visiting Scholar at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS). Previously, she was a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at Osaka Metropolitan University, where she conducted malaria immunology research within the SATREPS JICA Project in collaboration with Kenyan and Japanese partners.

Dr. Barbieri holds a PhD in Experimental Immunology from the University of Padova (Italy), carried out with Karolinska Institutet (Sweden), and a Master’s degree in Medical Biotechnologies from Padova in collaboration with King’s College London (UK). She also worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge (UK) and was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Tokyo (Japan).
 

Dr. Erik Forsberg has been the STINT Representative in Asia since 2018. He has worked in China for more than 17 years, and was the Founding Vice Director of the Sino–Swedish Joint Research Center of Photonics as well as a Postdoctoral Fellow and an Associate Professor at Zhejiang University, China.

Dr. Forsberg was the Founding Graduate Dean at the Higher Colleges of Technology (United Arab Emirates) and a Visiting Scientist at Hokkaido University (Japan). Currently, he is an Adjunct Associate Professor at Zhejiang University and a Visiting Research Associate at the University of Malaya (Malaysia). In parallel with his academic work, he has been active in industry and entrepreneurship in China, co-founding several startups.

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