Garbage In, Garbage Out: Using AI Responsibly in Process Safety

Well, in our conversation today, we're going to talk about how it's so easy to create your own agents to do activities for you.

Almost too easy.

But easy access doesn't always mean blanket permission.

The real skill now is knowing where to draw the line.

We've been addressing, you and I have been addressing the use of AI in safety for some time now, but the swift pace of how AI is entering nearly everything makes this conversation more urgent than it was a year ago.

Can you talk a little bit about that?

Yeah, so we're certainly starting to see a lot broader use of what they call agentic AI, which is the creation of these agents, these bots that go and do stuff for you.

And it's really interesting to see how some of that is evolving.

It has the potential to remove some really low-value work from us that allows us to concentrate on more important or higher-value work.

And I think that's an important thing.

It's not about using agents to take people's jobs away.

It's about using agents to take away the dull and monotonous things that that can get done so we can do the more important things.

So there's a lot happening in the agentic AI space.

Obviously, we've still got the continued proliferation of generative AI.

So, so much more of that generative AI.

So that's the, you ask ChatGPT a question, for example, or Claude or whoever you use, you ask it a question, it gives you an answer.

That's generative AI.

So There's these two sort of fields that are really happening there.

And I think one of the reasons we're seeing far more agentic AI is also because we've now got this thing called vibe coding, which people can now go and create these agents without needing to know how to program anything.

You can vibe code it by telling it what you want it to do and it goes and does it for you.

So this is a really interesting progression as we go through.

But it does, you're right, it does open us up into some very significant risks if we don't get it right.

And, you know, particularly we see a lot of people are vibe coding and creating all sorts of apps and things now, which is great.

But are they actually following the required security standards that we need? to ensure we keep all of these things safe as well is another question.

Another risk that I think we face a little bit because when it's so easy to create, it's very democratized at the moment.

Well, in our conversation today, we're going to talk about how it's so easy to create your own agents to do activities for you.

Almost too easy.

But easy access doesn't always mean blanket permission.

The real skill now is knowing where to draw the line.

We've been addressing, you and I have been addressing the use of AI in safety for some time now, but the swift pace of how AI is entering nearly everything makes this conversation more urgent than it was a year ago.

Can you talk a little bit about that?

Yeah, so we're certainly starting to see a lot broader use of what they call agentic AI, which is the creation of these agents, these bots that go and do stuff for you.

And it's really interesting to see how some of that is evolving.

It has the potential to remove some really low-value work from us that allows us to concentrate on more important or higher-value work.

And I think that's an important thing.

It's not about using agents to take people's jobs away.

It's about using agents to take away the dull and monotonous things that that can get done so we can do the more important things.

So there's a lot happening in the agentic AI space.

Obviously, we've still got the continued proliferation of generative AI.

So, so much more of that generative AI.

So that's the, you ask ChatGPT a question, for example, or Claude or whoever you use, you ask it a question, it gives you an answer.

That's generative AI.

So There's these two sort of fields that are really happening there.

And I think one of the reasons we're seeing far more agentic AI is also because we've now got this thing called vibe coding, which people can now go and create these agents without needing to know how to program anything.

You can vibe code it by telling it what you want it to do and it goes and does it for you.

So this is a really interesting progression as we go through.

But it does, you're right, it does open us up into some very significant risks if we don't get it right.

And, you know, particularly we see a lot of people are vibe coding and creating all sorts of apps and things now, which is great.

But are they actually following the required security standards that we need? to ensure we keep all of these things safe as well is another question.

Another risk that I think we face a little bit because when it's so easy to create, it's very democratized at the moment.