Artificial intelligence may not help predict oil and gas incidents
As artificial intelligence (AI) systems begin to control safety-critical infrastructure across a growing number of industries, DNV GL has released a position paper on the responsible use of AI. The paper asserts that data-driven models alone may not be sufficient to ensure safety and calls for a combination of data and causal models to mitigate risk.
Entitled “AI + Safety,” the paper details the advance of AI and how such autonomous and self-learning systems are becoming more and more responsible for making safety-critical decisions. The paper states that as the complexity of engineering systems increases, and more and more systems are interconnected and controlled by computers, human minds have become hard pressed to cope with, and understand, the associated enormous and dynamic complexity.