Contribute to the Public Automation Readiness Brief

Why This Exists

Autonomous and automated systems are already operating in public and shared environments—cities, campuses, infrastructure corridors, and workplaces.

Yet the systems responsible for safety, access, liability, and public trust are often forced to react after incidents occur or regulation hardens.

‍The Public Automation Readiness Brief exists to close that gap by gathering insight from the people who will bear responsibility—before incidents or regulation force reactive decisions.

‍This is not about slowing innovation.It’s about ensuring large-scale deployment is resilient, legible, and publicly accountable.

What the Brief Does

The Brief establishes a readiness baseline for autonomous systems operating in shared environments by:

• Capturing role-specific insight from responsible stakeholders
  
• Identifying system-level gaps that don’t appear at the device level
• Mapping where responsibility, visibility, and authority currently break down
• Creating a shared, human-readable picture of readiness before scale

The outcome is not a scorecard or ranking.
It is a clear, actionable understanding of what must exist for safe, scalable deployment.

What You Receive by Contributing

1. Advance Visibility Into Systemic Risk

Contributors receive:

• Early insight into failure patterns that emerge only at scale
  
• Visibility into cross-system interactions (infrastructure, policy, energy, autonomy)
• Signals that typically surface only after incidents or litigation

This is foresight most organizations only gain reactively.

2. Influence Over Readiness Expectations Before They Solidify

Your input directly shapes:

• How “readiness” is defined in practice
  
• Which assumptions are challenged early
• What cities, insurers, and institutions begin to expect as baseline conditions

Early contributors help define the questions others will later be required to answer.

3. Role-Specific Findings, Not Generic Reports

Participants receive:

• A role-filtered summary relevant to their responsibilities
  
• Clear articulation of where accountability realistically sits
• Creating a shared, human-readable picture of readiness before scale

No hype. No generalized “AI ethics” commentary.

4. Early Positioning Ahead of Policy, Insurance, and Procurement Shifts

Contributors gain:

• Early awareness of how expectations are likely to evolve
  
• Time to adapt before requirements harden
• Reduced friction when policies, underwriting standards, or procurement language change

Preparation here is significantly cheaper than retrofitting later.

5. Access to Closed Briefings and Peer Dialogue

Contributors may be invited to:

• Closed briefings on aggregate findings
  
• Small-group discussions with peers facing similar responsibility
• Early conversations shaping next-phase readiness work

This is not a public webinar.It is a working-level exchange among accountable stakeholders.

6. Clearer Internal Alignment

Many contributors use the Brief to:

• Align leadership, legal, safety, and technical teams
  
• Communicate risk clearly to boards and executives
• Establish a shared internal understanding of readiness gaps

This alone often justifies participation.

7. Optional Pathways Forward (No Obligation)

Participation may open the door to:

• Deeper readiness assessments
  
• Simulation and stress-testing collaboration
• Co-development discussions
• Pilot exploration when appropriate

There is no requirement to proceed beyond the Brief.

The outcome is not a scorecard or ranking.
It is a clear, actionable understanding of what must exist for safe, scalable deployment.