Intelligence Under Control: Professor Kai London on Governing AI in Heavy Industry
By the Alaska News Technology Desk Professor Kai London — board advisor & interim CISO/CIO/CTO. Credit: professorkailondon.com Artificial intelligence is moving into heavy industry — optimising production, predicting equipment failures, and increasingly influencing operational decisions. That promise, argues Professor Kai London , a senior technology executive, comes with a warning particular to energy and industrial settings. “In heavy industry, an ungoverned AI decision does not just misfire in a spreadsheet,” he says. “It can move machinery. Control has to come before autonomy.” “Capability is loud; control is quiet. In industrial AI, the gap between what a model can do and what you can govern is measured in physical risk.” The high stakes of industrial AI London distinguishes AI that advises from AI that acts. “A model recommending a maintenance schedule is one thing,” he says. “A model or agent that adjusts a process is another. The closer AI gets to the physical layer, ...