The Public Automation Readiness Brief

Contribute to the Public Automation Readiness Brief

Autonomous and automated systems are already operating in shared environments—often faster than the infrastructure meant to understand, explain, or prepare for them.

The Public Automation Readiness Brief invites leaders who will ultimately bear responsibility—across cities, campuses, insurers, infrastructure operators, and system builders—to contribute insight before incidents or regulation force reactive decisions.

Your participation helps establish:

  • A shared understanding of readiness
  • Visibility into system-level gaps
  • Conditions for responsible scale
  • The groundwork for trust that can endure

This is not a procurement, a policy mandate, or a sales process. It is an opportunity to shape readiness early, when influence still matters.

Reality Mapping

Purpose: Establish ground truth before decisions are made.

Environment Readiness Mapping

What it is:
A structured inventory of where autonomous and automated systems operate—or are expected to operate—across public and shared environments.

Why it matters:
Most environments do not have a clear picture of current exposure. Readiness begins with knowing what exists.

Responsibility & Authority Mapping

What it is:
Identification of who is expected to respond, decide, or explain when systems behave unexpectedly—regardless of vendor ownership.

Why it matters:
Responsibility often exists without authority. This gap defines early risk.

Readiness Gap Identification Tools

What it is:
Clear articulation of what is missing (visibility, coordination, data, authority) before expanded deployment occurs.

Why it matters:
You cannot fix what has not been named.

Visibility & Baseline

Purpose: Make system behavior legible and assess preparedness without blame.

System-Level Visibility

What it is:
A human-readable view of how autonomous and automated systems behave across conditions, environments, and infrastructure dependencies.

What it is:
Device-level logs do not translate into civic understanding. Visibility builds trust and prevents surprise.

Readiness Baseline

What it is:
A role-aware assessment of preparedness that avoids scoring, ranking, or blame, and instead highlights contextual readiness and gaps.

Why it matters:
Readiness is not binary. Understanding nuance enables responsible decisions before pressure forces them.

Structured Civic Reporting

What it is:
A formal channel for responsible stakeholders to log questions, anomalies, near-misses, and recurring issues into a shared record.

Why it matters:
Fragmented reporting delays response and erodes public confidence. Structure allows learning to compound.

Scaling & Reference Infrastructure

Purpose: Enable expansion only under defined, testable conditions.

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Readiness & Attestation

Purpose: Establish ground truth before decisions are made.

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Legitimacy & Recognition

Purpose: Establish ground truth before decisions are made.

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