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Moriba Jah

Moriba Jah

Moriba Jah is an astrodynamicist, space environmentalist, and decision intelligence pioneer advancing a new foundation for how AI reasons under uncertainty. He is a full professor of Aerospace Engineering & Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin, leading the Jah Decision Intelligence Group (JDIG) and the co-founder and Chief Scientist of GaiaVerse and Privateer Space.

Jah’s early work focused on improving transparency and accountability in Earth orbit, developing methods to identify admissible orbital regions and reconcile inconsistent space object catalogs. His contributions underpin platforms such as ASTRIAGraph and Wayfinder, which integrate global data sources to provide open, verifiable insight into the space environment.

Building on this foundation, Jah now leads the development of a broader epistemic framework for AI, introducing the Theory of Epistemic Abductive Geometry (TEAG). This approach replaces overconfident probabilistic inference with possibilistic reasoning that explicitly represents ignorance, enabling AI systems to distinguish between what is supported by evidence and what remains unknown.

Through GaiaVerse, Jah applies these principles across domains including climate risk, public health, human rights, and conflict analysis, creating agentic AI systems that produce auditable, bounded, and traceable outputs. His work emphasizes that trustworthy AI must be able to say “I don’t know,” and to justify what it claims with explicit evidence and uncertainty bounds.

Jah is a leading advocate for “space environmentalism,” framing Earth’s orbital domain as a finite, shared ecosystem requiring stewardship. His work bridges science, policy, and ethics, advancing a vision of AI that supports accountability, transparency, and equitable decision-making at planetary scale.

He is a MacArthur Fellowship recipient, a TED Fellows member, a National Geographic Society Explorer, and an International Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

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