Machine learning already sits inside the software that produces a reserves estimate. Regulation S-K Item 1202(a)(7) already requires you to describe the internal controls over that effort. Six questions that bring a stale control narrative back in line with the process you actually run.
Defensible AI has nothing to do with how advanced your models are. It is whether you can reconstruct how an AI-influenced decision was made, who reviewed it, and on whose authority. A six-item checklist for energy operators.
AI tool approval is a board-level governance decision, not an IT purchase. The seven questions directors should ask before any AI tool touches a material energy decision.
