An applied-reasoning project
Operational AI in Search & Rescue
Putting an AI capability into a real operation is never one decision. The same system can be taken apart three ways: what it does, where it runs, and what it is allowed to cause. When conditions change, some of those have to move, and some must stay exactly where they are.
Search and rescue is the case, because the stakes are a person in the cold and the constraints keep shifting under you. There are two ways in.
The argument
Read the essay
The written case, start to finish. One system, decomposed by function, placement, and authority, and what it costs to move each one.
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The interactive
Run the searches
Step through the operation and watch what moving the work costs you, and watch the one part of the system that never shows up on a dashboard.
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