Last week my granddaughter went on her first camp, a remote location where phones wouldn’t work and where making a campfire was a lesson. The group of teenagers were faces with the realities of an offline world and the realities of living/being as person in relationships. This is a world where you … [Read more...] about The Offline World and Risk
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Putting the AI in the AIHS
Putting the AI in the AIHS If there’s one thing that’s reliable about the AIHS is, they become more irrelevant as time progresses. The latest we have is this: AI transforming WHS roles: Why safety professionals must master new technology And this: AI will reshape workplace safety risks and … [Read more...] about Putting the AI in the AIHS
AI Standards and No Ethical Standards for AI
If you are looking to understand, help, manage, tackle and think about the ethics of AI, don’t go to ISO 42001 Information Technology – Artificial Intelligence – Management System. Here you have a 50 page document supposedly about risks associated with AI (mentioned 34 times) and the word ethics … [Read more...] about AI Standards and No Ethical Standards for AI
Faith in AI and AI Safety
DOWNLOAD PAPER HERE: Faith in AI and AI Safety Introduction The propaganda machine for AI is accelerating at full speed with huge implications for WHS and AI Safety. The latest is that, AI can identify crime a week before it happens … [Read more...] about Faith in AI and AI Safety
AI Saves Lives and Throws Ethics Out the Window
In the long line of LinkedIn lunacy in safety we have this: ‘AI Saves Lives’. So now ‘AI-powered safety systems can analyse thousands of data points from cameras and sensors in real time’. And this comes complete with an AI generated graphic showing how AI can undertake surveillance on site, … [Read more...] about AI Saves Lives and Throws Ethics Out the Window
You Don’t Do AI, AI Does You! Where Next for Safety?
The seduction, hype and mythology of AI knows no bounds. I read recently about AI ‘deathbots’ and wondered just how more absurd can this delusion of AI go. What you do, is sample your voice, data, videos, messages and voice notes, creating “digital doubles” of ourselves and, other input into AI … [Read more...] about You Don’t Do AI, AI Does You! Where Next for Safety?
AI Looks Back, as Does Safety so, Where Will Innovation Come From?
Try an interesting experiment and look up yourself using AI and see what you find. What can AI do? It can scan the past and trawl through what’s available online but it can’t think critically (https://safetyrisk.net/what-is-critical-thinking-for-safety/ ), interpret, ask, think forward or embrace … [Read more...] about AI Looks Back, as Does Safety so, Where Will Innovation Come From?
The Dangers of AI for Safety
I don’t use AI and never have and, have no intention of doing so. We’ve done two video on the dangers of AI for safety here: https://safetyrisk.net/is-ai-safe-two-videos/ And, have written on the ethics of using AI in safety here: https://safetyrisk.net/ai-ethics-and-ai-safety/ My last … [Read more...] about The Dangers of AI for Safety
Let’s Do Everything Except Listen to People in Safety
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
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