My AI experience has not overlapped with my risk assessment/management experience, so the short answer to Mitch's excellent question is that I don't know.
A longer answer is that I asked Google's Gemini AI and got responses that contain useful ideas (e.g. using AI image analysis to detect cracks) but seem misleading in some respects.
You can read Gemini's responses in the library entries below:
- How to use AI to manage infrastructure risk?
- How to use AI to assess infrastructure risk?
Neither response explicitly mentions consequences, which are an essential component of risk. That reflects a common failure of our literature, which tends to use "risk" and "threat" interchangeably. Large Language AI only regurgitates what it reads.
Does anyone have suggestions on how to make AI work best for risk assessment and management, including consequences?
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William McAnally Ph.D., P.E., BC.CE, BC.NE, F.ASCE
ENGINEER
Columbus MS
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