Systemic Deviation, A Key to Explain Systemic Failures

Hello, welcome everyone. It is May 2nd, 2025. We're in OctInf Guest Stream 105.1 with Paola DiMaio discussing systemic deviation from systemic failures to systemic aberration. We will first be playing a pre-recorded lecture and then follow that with a discussion with Paola and Jeff Schulman here. So looking forward to everyone's comments in the live chat and here we go with the pre-recorded video. Daniel at the OctInference Institute. I'm going to invite Daniel and friends to talk a little bit about my work. And they picked a topic from one of my papers called Systemic Deviation. And I've taken the opportunity to remind myself how does this systemic deviation thing I wrote about some time ago applies today. So in the process of reviewing the paper, which I wrote a few years ago on the topic, actually I have updated it and realized that it's not only relevant, it also has this concept of systemic deviation. It's got like profound implication in helping us to understand a number of things which are going on today. And so the new title for the topic, Systemic Deviation, is from systemic failures to systemic aberration. It's a huge topic. So thank you so much for bearing with me. And it's about 50 slides and I will try to go through them as quickly as possible. But because I don't like to hurry too much and speaking too fast, although I've got so much to say in such a little time, I think I recommend that people listening to the talk will replay it at 1.5 speed so that all this pausing that I do while I'm reading doesn't slow you down. So systemic deviation refers to a behavioral and functional shift of a system from its intended purpose. And it's particularly relevant in the context of intelligent and autonomous system. So what is systemic deviation? A theory, a lens, a paradigm, a framework. Just could be anything that you want it to be in a way. And let's take it as a book concept at the moment. So roughly this is going to be the content of the talk. Introduction background, examples, mitigation measures, systems. And this table of contents in fact was written up before I finalized the slides. So we may deviate a little bit. This is just indicative. And about me, I'm a teacher, writer, traveler, interested in nature, complementary health, systems, metaphysics. I'm asking myself the big questions all the time. And eventually it wasn't easy for me to focus on an academic, life because of my diversity of interest. But then luckily in these recent years, it is okay to be multidisciplinary. So my academic focus in the last, say, 10 years after my PhD has been information technology, intelligence systems, knowledge representation. I've got lots to say about this topic. Interfaces, neuroscience, neuromodulation, mecha science. So basically we are trying to follow and gather insights into every little topic that matters today. So there was a paper called Systemic Deviation, the Evil in the Machine, which can be found online easily. And it was published by the International Society for Systems. It was a presentation I did at some conference. And then, um, and it was a little bit like scratching the surface. So this is a great opportunity. Thank you, Daniel and Hector, who said, let's talk about this topic again, because it's really good to go back to it and see what does this tell us about what we are at, really. Then the other, if you want to know a little bit more, you go into psychological abuse. And you say, why? Oh, I'll tell you later. But basically there is an interesting, an interesting direction for the Systemic Deviation into the cognition and psychology of how this, what this does to people. So, uh, thanks to another opportunity, I'm related a couple of years ago, uh, into looking at the, uh, psychiatry rather it was, but you know, like there was something that Systemic Deviation does to people. And so if you may be interested in that, you can just click. And, um, eventually what we're getting at is Systemic Abuse,…