The host had said that even in heavily automated facilities, people will still need to be responsible for how the plant works. ABB's head of energy industries answers with the company's position on how far autonomy should go.
…have an asset where safety is absolutely key, you would like to have a button to push in case you need to shut down your facility for some reason, right? So you have these type of things which will play into the equation of how AI will be developed. But I think it will play a big role, actually.
…in those facilities that are more heavily... Automated, there will still be a need for the people to be responsible. Yep. And so at the end of the day, and then if they're going to be responsible, they also need to understand how the plant works and to understand what they need to do to run it.
We believe people in charge of AI rather than AI in charge of people.
Per Erik Holsten, thank you very much indeed. For another perspective on AI and energy, I spoke to Chris Rezendes, who's the chief business officer of the industrial AI company Context Labs. And I asked him first of all what the company did in terms of serving the energy industry.
First and foremost, our company was founded on a number of principles related to data integrity and the ability to trust data, to run data through autonomous systems, AI, or agentic systems. If you're going to consume data, you need to know as much as possible about that data. Not only its format…
Right, so give me some examples then of what that means in practice. What kind of things do energy companies use you to do?