Human-Centred Control of AI Is Both Possible and Necessary
Joanna J. Bryson, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series: The Role of Transatlantic Cooperation in AI Human Oversight in Defence, Francisco Andrés Pérez (ed.) IOS Press, Amsterdam, and Springer Nature, Dordrecht, in press, expected 2026.
This was originally an invited talk for the meeting Clicking the pause: The role of Transatlantic cooperation in AI Supervision in May 2025. Both the talk and the book chapter were very much written to facilitate cooperation between US, EU, and other NATO members and partners, by helping them understand firstly that we can maintain human-centred control, and secondly, the relative strengths of both US and EU approaches to deploying and governing AI systems, particularly in military contexts. It contains some fairly direct language about working with NATO’s electoral autocracies, of which there are more than one.