Human-Machine Teaming – the Way forward to a Super-Smart Society: AI and Autonomous Systems

This paper provides an overview on a new evolutionary approach to a super-smart society of the future, which may really revolutionize our society in the long term in a disruptive manner. It is a concept which assumes a constructive change of the way of cooperation between humans and “machines” as a well-defined team, in the following addressed as “Human-Machine Teaming”
(HMT). This could change our attitude to AI-based systems of all kinds (“machines” are the “AI” in e.g., robotic systems, but also business, financial, healthcare, mobility or administrative systems) and of different levels of “intelligence” and autonomy, with which humans are interacting. This approach
is driven primarily by Japanese experts, e.g., in AI-Standardization (ISO/IEC JTC1 SC42 WG4). The long-term vision follows the Japanese official concept of “Society 5.0”. A discussion of this concept was done first in IDIMT 2019 (Schoitsch 2019). This paper outlines the “Society 5.0” concept and reports on the most recent activities and EU-Japan joint workshops on AI Ethics and Human-
Machine Teaming (HMT) as an advanced implementation. This is also part of the AI-Task Force Workstream in the European INSTAR project which strives for aligning AI standardization priorities between different global regions and Europe. HMT is an advanced implementation of smart technologies and AI with strong impact on society, which are the drivers of economic and societal
disruptive changes and a chance to shape our future in a beneficial way (but no chance without risk).