When AI Meets Energy: How Legal Teams Can Anticipate Risks and Lead Proactive Governance
Artificial intelligence is rapidly reshaping how energy companies operate — from pipeline integrity and drilling optimization to customer credit modeling and market bidding — but legal and regulatory oversight hasn’t kept pace. This session gives in‑house energy counsel the practical tools they need to govern AI systems responsibly, avoid regulatory pitfalls, and protect the business. Through hypothetical Texas case studies involving pipeline leaks, drilling failures, trading investigations, insurance gaps, and customer‑facing bias, participants will learn where AI creates real‑world risk and how to build defensible, right‑sized governance frameworks that regulators, boards, and courts expect. Attendees will leave with a clear, actionable roadmap for inventorying AI across the enterprise, assessing risk, negotiating contracts, structuring oversight, and responding to incidents — all with concrete examples and strategies they can implement immediately.
This discussion will be led Baker Botts partners Samir Bhavsar and David Applebaum.
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