Artificial intelligence, with its remarkable ability to digest and analyze enormous amounts of data and to identify patterns and anomalies, has nearly limitless positive applications for industry, including for electric utilities. But it could be used just as effectively as a malicious tool by hackers and scammers.
Electric cooperatives, like many other sectors, are moving cautiously with AI, finding ways to safely implement new and enhanced systems while marginalizing certain tools that could increase cybersecurity risk.
To learn more about the broad impacts of AI on co-op cyber practices, we’ll talk to Carter Manucy, NRECA cybersecurity director. And we’ll also hear from Dairyland Power Cooperative Vice President and Chief Information Officer Nate Melby and Business Application Supervisor Vlad Tsoy about a new internal AI tool that they built.
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