How Safety Culture has to Change With AI
This Safety Critical Syatems Club 1-day seminar looks at how an organisation’s safety culture has to change when systems including AI are introduced.
The emergent application of artificial intelligence in safety critical systems raises many questions for safety culture:
- Who is accountable for safety – who has agency for safety – the AI developers or the operators?
- How does AI impact ownership of safety if operational decisions are made by AI?
- How does AI impact transparency in operational safety decision making?
- Does AI erode safety citizenship – a sense of self-determination – and disempower people?
- How do you design AI so as to allow people to intervene in a timely manner and retain effective oversight?
- Does AI erode human skills such that they can no longer truly retain operational responsibility?
- What if the person wrongly overrides the AI, how is this treated in a fair and just way?
- How do developers make decisions about the readiness of novel AI safety critical systems?
- What are the opportunities offered by AI in safety critical systems?
This seminar will hear from experts working at the cutting edge of AI and Human Factors about these and other issues, and discuss emerging principles and good practices.
Speakers and talks include:
Ben Fulford, Safety Consultant, BMT – Merging Human Expertise with AI for Better Safety Management
Adam Johns, Marsh Limited – Redefining Accountability: Just Culture in the Age of AI
Paul Leach, Head of Human Factors, Rail Safety and Standards Board – Human factors principles for the design and operation of AI systems in rail
Kathy Syfret, Deputy MilCAM for A400M RAF platform – AI and Aircraft Maintenance
Michael Wright, Wright Human Factors Ltd – Artificial Intelligence: Emergent safety culture issues
It will include speakers and inputs from the SCSC Safety Culture Working Group (SCWG).
It will be held in-person in central London at the Hilton London Euston hotel, 17-18 Upper Woburn Pl, London WC1H 0HT
Please contact [email protected] for more information.
Starts
Thursday, 19th June 2025 at 9:00am
Ends
Saturday, 19th July 2025 at 7:00pm