When it matters, who should act - people or the system - and how much authority should shift, and when? I’ll share what we’re learning about designing and evaluating control handoffs between humans and AI. We’ll also look at adaptive approaches that respond to operator workload or affect - promising, but ethically delicate - and close with failure modes, safeguards, and open questions for critical operations. 

About the Host

Lope Hugo Barrero Solano is an industrial engineer with a master's and a doctoral degree in environmental health, with a concentration in ergonomics and occupational safety. His research focuses on the assessment of physical work demands and their implications for musculoskeletal health across diverse industries – including healthcare, mining, agriculture, and logistics. He is also developing work at the intersection of human factors, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence in high-risk domains such as cybersecurity. He is currently a full professor at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, where he has had the honor of chairing the Department of Industrial Engineering and serving as dean of the School of Engineering. He is a visiting scholar at Seattle University's College of Science and Engineering for the current academic year.