I am pretty sure he was describing the metaphorical "we", and is postulating that even the "experts" have a misplaced confidence in controlling these systems.
Furthermore, I feel this this could be an ideal application for AI. AI is outstanding at recognizing patterns that are often impossible for other systems to discover, so what would be better then to "train" a group of AI on nuclear plant safety and let them monitor all the systems in real time, looking for any group of subtle changes that, in the past, have lead to severe problems?
I'm sure I'm hardly the first person to consider this, so I was wondering if anyone has any info about using AI in this way?
There are indeed utilities utilizing ML with their plant computer archives (~OSISoft PI or similar) to find trending problems, e.g. identifying things like "This pump usually runs at this temperature for these conditions, but now it is behaving differently".
Furthermore, I feel this this could be an ideal application for AI. AI is outstanding at recognizing patterns that are often impossible for other systems to discover, so what would be better then to "train" a group of AI on nuclear plant safety and let them monitor all the systems in real time, looking for any group of subtle changes that, in the past, have lead to severe problems?
I'm sure I'm hardly the first person to consider this, so I was wondering if anyone has any info about using AI in this way?