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The Download: how AI could improve construction site safety, and our Roundtables conversation with Karen Hao

Rhiannon Williams

created: July 2, 2025, 12:10 p.m. | updated: July 8, 2025, 8:52 a.m.

A new AI tool called Safety AI could help to change that. Lorenzo says Safety AI is the first one of multiple emerging AI construction safety tools to use generative AI to flag safety violations. But as the 95% success rate suggests, Safety AI is not a flawless and all-knowing intelligence. —Andrew RosenblumRoundtables: Inside OpenAI’s Empire with Karen HaoEarlier this week, we held a subscriber-only Roundtable discussion with author and former MIT Technology Review senior editor Karen Hao about her new book Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI. MIT Technology Review Narrated: The tech industry can’t agree on what open-source AI means.

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