What are the big challenges when it comes to adopting this kind of tech to bring in clean energy?
James There’ s not really a decent governance framework yet around AI.
And related to that, the legal implications of decisions made by AI are not fully understood yet. I think there’ s more work needs to be done on what happens if AI makes a mistake – who’ s responsible for that properly. This is a challenge.
There’ s still a lot of talk in the media about the accuracy of AI. That’ s maybe a training issue, maybe it’ s to do with how you use the models exactly, but there is definitely a perception of accuracy that needs to be addressed quite quickly as we go through.
Anant The one challenge that I think all of us recognise – but don’ t understand too much in the context of operating assets in the energy industry – is cyber. A lot of the design of technology infrastructure is very well covered by cyber, but the operations technology is very different today. There’ s
“ You’ ve got to think through the cyber risks right at the outset”
ANANT MAHESHAWRI, PRESIDENT & CEO OF GLOBAL REGIONS, HONEYWELL
a lot of challenge in connecting operating assets because at the end of the day, you need to capture that data, which is in islands inside the operating assets. As soon as you start connecting it, you are opening the door to get the data as well as to these cyber risks. These operating assets are not just high value but they’ re also potentially high damage and therefore you’ ve got to think through the cyber risks right at the outset.
As you design AI, there’ s a lot of opportunity, but there’ s a lot of potential downsides.
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