Dr Matt Celnik, digital innovation team lead at DNV, will be speaking at Hazardex Live 2024 about Artificial Intelligence, offering insights into its uses and benefits, as well as the opportunities it brings to process safety.

Are you ready to hand over control of safety-critical systems to an AI operator? Computational agents already arguably out-perform human operators, even in safety-critical operations like flying aircraft. At least while things are going well. Generative-AI hints at the next generation of computational agent; those which adapt to unforeseen situations and react far quicker than a human. Indeed, our increasingly complex and distributed systems necessitate significant advances in computational technology to run effectively. So, should we marvel at the magnificence of AI and let it loose in our systems and, if so, how do we ensure it is safe?

DNV’s report “AI Insights: Rising to the challenge across the UK energy system” consolidates industry thoughts on the AI landscape.  We gathered insights from ten diverse organisations, supplemented by DNV research and other sources. Here we summarize the opportunities, barriers, and role of trust for engineering AI solutions.

About the author:

Dr Matt Celnik is a digital innovation team lead at DNV and a chartered chemical engineer.  He has a passion for applying digital and data-driven solutions to real-world engineering problems. His team helps the energy sector embrace this technology in a trusted and secure way, guided by DNV’s long history and expertise in assurance. Matt has a PhD from Cambridge University and has worked in varied academic, research and consulting roles throughout his career. His current focus is digital trust for emerging data-driven technologies – such as AI – and how they can support the energy transition. Matt is also one of the authors of the recent DNV report ‘AI Insights – Rising to the challenge across the UK energy system’.