A key theme during  Future Digital Twin 2023 was democratising AI for all. Across the oil and gas value chain, the benefits of leveraging digital twins paired with AI are clear. Artificial intelligence enables proactive and predictive asset management, boosts smarter, quicker, data-driven decision-making and learning, builds employee connection, and ensures the health and safety of the workforce.

But to implement and scale, and fully reap the rewards that AI offers, oil and gas companies must first democratise AI through the organisation. This means putting AI into the hands of non-data scientists – employees across different lines of business with varying levels of experience – and making AI accessible to every area of the organisation.

How do you democratise AI?

To build AI with, and for, everyone in the organisation, our expert panellists at Future Digital Twin 2023 agreed that business leaders need to empower employees to actively shape their AI journeys. Strategies to achieve this goal include:

• Invest in culture and leadership – establish new ways of working and provide education and training on AI
• Promote AI governance to deliver transparent and ethical AI for accountability, responsibility and oversight, removing AI from its “black box” and engendering trust
• Adopt a user-centred approach. End-users are best positioned to help identify best use cases; they can frame the business problem and define their requirements for AI processes 
• Invest in a strong data foundation – cleaner data will foster credibility, confidence and smarter AI
• Embrace an AI-driven operating model

Gartner expects that by 2026, organisations that operationalise AI transparency and trust will see their AI models achieve a 50% result improvement in terms of adoption, business goals and user acceptance.

Speakers:

Ralph Rio, VP, ARC Advisory Group, Mustafa Kara, Principal Data Scientist, Chevron, Jason Gislason, Chief Digital Officer, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, Haavard Oestensen, VP of Growth, Digital Twins, Kongsberg Digital, Walace Oliveira, Digital Transformation Lead, Data & Analytics Solutions, Petrobras and  Moderator Seth Taylor, Smart Facilities Manager, Chevron.