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Foresight Review on the Safe Adoption of AI
In collaboration with Careful Industries.
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Duration
This project's duration was 2025 - 2026
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£180,000
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Careful Industries’ work understands and anticipates the social impacts of technologies.
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Examining AI’s impact on worker safety, environmental sustainability, and infrastructure resilience.
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Overview
Lloyd's Register Foundation is looking to expand the evidence base on the safe adoption of AI in safety-critical industries. This new Foresight review will enable effective decision-making for AI developers, purchasers, implementers, and policymakers of the potential harms to people, infrastructure and the environment that may occur through AI adoption.
Led by Careful Industries, we will widen the scope of assurance for both policymakers and AI developers and provide an accessible mechanism for assessing the “real-world” impacts of AI development.
The project will focus on three areas:
- Worker safety
- Analysing the impacts on workers of developing and deploying AI systems, from data labelling and moderation labour to the risk factors involved in working alongside robotics and cyber-physical systems.
- Environmental safety
- Exploring the impacts of data-centres and mining of rare earth metals for AI infrastructure, juxtaposed with the considerable contributions of AI and machine learning towards environmental monitoring and renewable energy.
- Infrastructure resilience
- Evaluating the vulnerabilities caused by the rapid development and roll-out of AI systems across critical infrastructure systems, and the governance and resilience risks associated with AI adoption.
The project will combine desk research with qualitative and participatory research and foresight methods in five key locations: India, South Africa, Kenya, China and the UK. Throughout, collaboration with experts with lived, learnt, and practical experience will be central to identifying a range of unfolding and emergent issues.
The Foresight Review is expected to launch in June 2026. If you are interested in receiving future updates on convening activity and research outputs related to the Foresight Review on the Safe Adoption of AI, please complete the form below.
Keep informed about the Foresight Review of AI
AI is a complex field of computer science in which 'safety' is often viewed as a technical development issue, assessed via pre-deployment quality assurance checks. However, few AI systems are truly finished at deployment: new outcomes and impacts on people and systems can emerge throughout their lifecycle and – as these emergent technologies are increasingly integrated into critical infrastructures – they create many new challenges for engineering safety and assurance. We’re delighted to be conducting Lloyd's Register Foundation’s latest Foresight Review, and I’m confident the recommendations will help stakeholders across both technological and infrastructural domains make informed decisions about AI development and deployment.
Rachel Coldicutt OBE Founder and Executive Director of Careful Industries
