Join the ECHO Flash Floods Tabletop Exercise
We're running a hands-on tabletop exercise to explore edge cases in flash flood response, testing where AI decision-making can break down, and how we can make it more reliable in the real world.
When: Date TBC - sign up to stay tuned!
Where: Satellite Applications Catapult, Harwell Campus, Oxfordshire, UK
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Governable Agentic AI for crisis response
Crisis Operations, often referred to as Emergency Operations Centres (EOC) or Crisis Command Centers (CCC) can operate at a town, city, state or national-level. These centres are critical for co-ordinating responses during an emergency and there is currently active investment in these centres to mitigate the increasing civil resilience challenges of the 21st Century. However effective operations are still hindered by open problems, such as:
Information overload
Fragmented common operational picture
Limited real-time communication
Misallocation or inefficient allocation of response
Poor decisions and bias in high-stress situations
The potential for agentic crisis operations
Agentic AI (smart tools that inform, act and report back to a LLM) is a promising direction of research for crisis operations, where human decision making can be positively enhanced by AI.
Therefore, the ability to transition from passive analysis to real-time decision-making in high-stakes environments is an important new capability. However, the shift from theoretical models to reliable, real-world action remains an open challenge and agentic systems remain brittle to real-world situations.
Agentic AI for disaster response must be tested against unpredictable conditions before it can be trusted in the field.
ECHO is a governable agentic system with a deep emphasis on human-in-the-loop. We are developing ECHO by stress-testing AI-driven crisis response in simulated disaster scenarios. Much like the evolution of self-driving cars, where rare but high-risk situations require extensive training before deployment.
ECHO: Disaster buddy
In the wake of natural disasters, solar geomagnetic storms or cyber-attacks, how can we ensure reliable situational awareness and decision support when conventional telecommunications infrastructure is compromised?
As part of the ECHO initiative, Disaster Buddy is a standalone, low-power AI assistant designed to function independently of modern communication networks, providing critical guidance in crisis scenarios when other services are unavailable.
Hand-held intelligence in crisis scenarios