I received heaps of positive feedback about my Newsletter (https://safetyrisk.net/quartely-newsletter-spor-news-april-2025/ ) yesterday that featured the theme: Is AI Safe? One executive leader stated that: The worst example is the so called ‘predictive analytics’ tools. I have seen how these … [Read more...] about Let’s Do Everything Except Listen to People in Safety
Artificial Intelligence
Is AI Safe? – Two Videos
Recently, Dr Craig Ashhurst, Dr Nippin Anand, Greg Smith and Dr Rob Long discussed the adoption of AI into the world of risk and safety. There are two videos here: Video One https://vimeo.com/1069071797 and here: Video Two https://vimeo.com/1069073815 Each one of these scholars … [Read more...] about Is AI Safe? – Two Videos
What You Give Up Using AI To Do Safety
The purpose of doing is learning. Learning through experience is our best teacher. This is because one of the best ways to learn is through feeling the results of doing. There’s nothing like disappointment and failure to teach a lesson. Similarly, there’s nothing like reward and success to … [Read more...] about What You Give Up Using AI To Do Safety
Who Is Responsible When the Cause is NOT a Person?
The first recoded death by driverless car was of Elaine Herzberg in 2018. When this happens who is responsible? There are other examples. Of course, the pundits were telling us 10 years ago that driverless cars would be all over the roads by now. They are not. The propaganda about technology … [Read more...] about Who Is Responsible When the Cause is NOT a Person?
AI, Ethics and AI Safety
I read with interest the white paper from LexisNexis Privacy and AI: Navigating Australia's Shifting Regulatory Landscape. And, apart from being a fairly typical marketing ploy, there is simply no discussion of ethics nor the critical need for understanding Technique (Ellul, Postman). The idea … [Read more...] about AI, Ethics and AI Safety
More of Safety talking to Safety About safety
So, we can now add a new area of expertise that Safety has acquired. We don’t just have Safety presenting on Ethics and Culture, we now have Safety parading a lack of expertise in Linguistics. Through the so-called lens of ‘language intelligence’. Download HERE: Language Intelligence However, if … [Read more...] about More of Safety talking to Safety About safety
AI Priorities and The Creation of Psychosocial Harm
An article appeared today (https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/life/tech/2023/12/04/bunnings-ai-chatbot) on how Bunnings, part of the Wesfarmers group, who also own Coles, Kmart, Officeworks and Wesfarmers Industrial and Safety brands, interviews potential candidates. The articles states: ‘People … [Read more...] about AI Priorities and The Creation of Psychosocial Harm
Safety Recycling
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been spruiked at the latest International Work Health and Safety Conference in Sydney Australia as the latest and greatest thing for Safety, yet again. The first thing all users of ChatGPT, Jasper et al, should know is that they only regurgitate what is already … [Read more...] about Safety Recycling
The Need for Discernment in Risk and Safety
If ever there was a time for critical thinking and discernment (https://www.humandymensions.com/product/real-risk/) it is now. We are not just bombarded with the propaganda of AI but also endless dis-information and mythology (https://safetyrisk.net/indiana-jones-and-the-hero-myth-in-safety/) … [Read more...] about The Need for Discernment in Risk and Safety
AI and Safety, Brutalism on Steroids
There has been so much hype about AI recently and such little discernment about what is hidden in the language and discourse of so much ‘noise’ about the issue. So much of what Ellul described 70 years ago: The Technological Society Never Mind Where, So Long As It's Fast: Jacques Ellul and … [Read more...] about AI and Safety, Brutalism on Steroids