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Utilities are adopting artificial intelligence (AI) for asset management, grid operations, outage response, cyber monitoring, inspections, forecasting, and decision support — creating new urgency for governance around safety, reliability, and liability.
This webinar will help utility leaders, technical teams, and attorneys understand how to govern AI in safety-critical environments where errors can impact customers, operations, regulators, and public trust.
The session will focus on the issues this audience most needs to hear: which AI use cases deserve heightened scrutiny, what structure to implement before deployment, how to manage vendor and third-party AI risk, what "human oversight" means in practice, when to measure AI progress including monitoring for drift or misuse, and how to document decisions so they are defensible after an incident, outage, audit, or lawsuit.
Key Takeaways
- Know where AI can create safety-critical risk: Participants will learn how to identify which utility AI use cases require heightened scrutiny because they may affect reliability, safety, customers, regulatory obligations, or legal exposure.
- Require evidence before trust: Participants will understand what defensible AI governance looks like in practice, including validation, testing, human oversight, vendor assurance, drift monitoring, misuse detection, and documented risk acceptance.
- Build governance that holds up after something goes wrong: Participants will learn how to structure accountability, documentation, and cross-functional review so AI decisions can be explained to regulators, boards, courts, and the public after an outage, incident, audit, or lawsuit.
Who Should Attend
- The legal community
- Civil, electrical, and structural engineers or computer scientists tasked with planning, building, and monitoring utilities
- Developers, project managers, and investors for utilities
CLE Credits
Earn 1 CLE credit for this session.*
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*Exponent is accredited as a Multiple Activity Provider in California. Please check with your local jurisdiction for CLE credit approval.
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