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title: AI safety in industrial contexts
date: "2024-07-20"
tags: ["safety", "industrial-ai", "risk"]
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AI safety discourse focuses on existential risk. Industrial AI deals with immediate physical risk. A misclassified defect means shipping bad product. A wrong control signal means equipment damage or worse.

The safety cases are different. Formal verification, redundant systems, human-in-the-loop controls—these aren't philosophical exercises. They're operational requirements. The models need to be right, measurably, every time.