** watch future Linda Hall Library lectures live at new.livestream.com/lindahall ** September 13, 2018, in the Main Reading Room of the Linda Hall Library. The lecture: This talk will discuss how artificial intelligence (AI) is changing transportation systems, including drones, driverless cars, and flying cars. Where and why humans will be needed as operators and supervisors in these systems will be illustrated, as well as how you can know if your job will one day be threatened by AI and robots. The speaker: Mary “Missy” Cummings is a professor in the Duke University Pratt School of Engineering, the Duke Institute of Brain Sciences, and Director of the Humans and Autonomy Laboratory and Duke Robotics. A naval officer and military pilot from 1988-1999, she was one of the U.S. Navy’s first female fighter pilots. Dr. Cummings received her BS in mathematics from the U.S. Naval Academy, an MS in space systems engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School, and a PhD in systems engineering from the University of Virginia. Her research interests include human supervisory control, human-unmanned vehicle interaction, human-autonomous system collaboration, human-robot interaction, human-systems engineering, and the ethical and social impact of technology. Video produced by The VideoWorks of Roeland Park, Kansas.

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