Safety AI is one of multiple AI construction safety tools that have emerged in recent years, from Silicon Valley to Hong Kong to Jerusalem. Lorenzo says Safety AI is the first one to use generative AI to flag safety violations, which means an algorithm that can do more than recognize objects such as ladders or hard hats. But as the 95% success rate suggests, Safety AI is not a flawless and all-knowing intelligence. Lorenzo thinks he’s built a better way to monitor sites, using a type of generative AI called a visual language model, or VLM. To help train the model, Lorenzo has a smaller team of construction safety pros ask strategic questions of the AI.