ActInf GuestStream 105.1 ~ Paola Di Maio: "Systemic Deviation, A Key to Explain Systemic Failures"

Paola Di Maio: "Systemic Deviation, A Key to Explain Systemic Failures"

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Intelligent and autonomous systems are increasingly embedded into the fabric of society. Innumerable risks underpin their complex architectures and widespread deployment, contributing to existential risks This presentation introduces the notion of Systemic Deviation, as a theoretical framework to support the conceptualization and cognitive elaboration of paradoxical situations where functional systems result in dysfunctional outcomes Systemic deviation can be used to understand how complexity can hide misaligned processes that lead to malfunction, failure and in some cases can result in outcomes directly contrary to the stated goals, without stakeholders understanding what is happening and how. The presentation discusses how systemic deviation can have adverse consequences on general systems *technical, and sociotechnical, and how it contributes to confounding, cognitive fog, and cognitive dissonance, which can lead to unnatural psychological states including suppression of intelligent functions, depression, loss including neuronal atrophy and synaptic loss in the medial prefrontal cortex. Mitigation strategies and the outline of a research agenda are presented.

Paola Di Maio, PhD is a multidisciplinary systems analyst and research scholar, practicing internationally as lecturer and independent consultant in the fields of intelligent socio technical systems, with active publications in the fields of neuroscience, policy, natural health and current affairs.

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