FBT Gibbons partner Mason Clutter, the firm’s privacy, security, and AI lead and former chief privacy officer to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, spoke with SupplyChainBrain about safeguards manufacturers should establish as they adopt AI in “Are Manufacturers Acting Too Hastily in Adopting AI?”
Clutter recommends documenting the reason for each AI deployment and forming a cross-functional committee with representatives from legal, IT, security operations, marketing and sales.
“Everyone needs to be on the same page before a single model touches your data,” she says.
Clutter says the need to build strong guardrails into AI systems should remain “top of mind.” That includes setting clear limits in vendor agreements on secondary use of company data and assigning people to oversee AI models and receive ongoing training.
“The risk goes up the more you default to the tool,” she says. “It is not a replacement for your human judgement and your expertise.”
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