Risk Management and Uncertainty of Artificial Intelligence in a High Hazard Industry

The Norwegian Ocean Safety Authority (HAVTIL) has observed rapid changes involving Artificial Intelligence (AI). Currently we have limited knowledge of possible consequences, and more uncertainties related to the development, deployment and maintenance of AI compared to other technologies. Deployed in high-hazard contexts such as the petroleum industry, AI can introduce new safety risks that must be mitigated to ensure prudent operations. Meticulous risk management throughout the AI's lifecycle, understanding new uncertainties, will be essential for both providers and deployers. The possibilities AI represents are vast, and optimism among the players is tremendous. However, the speed of development of AI solutions, prediction risk, unexpected or malicious use, new discipline experts unfamiliar with the potential of major hazards offshore can make it challenging to develop sufficient risk understanding and necessity of reliable AI predictions in a high hazard industry. We assert that the concept of uncertainty in our regulations will be more essential in risk management of safety to provide knowledge-based decisions to ensure safe operations when new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI) is introduced.

Keywords: Artificial intelligence, Risk management, Uncertainty.