Anthropic's Boaz Nur: AI to take the busywork, humans keep decisions

The summit panel put a specific shape on how AI is entering oil and gas: not as a replacement for judgment but as a way to strip out the preparation that precedes a decision. Nur's framing — models take the unpleasant work, humans keep the call — was echoed by Bolo AI's Diti Sood, who described the tool as a junior engineer rather than a substitute for the person doing the job.

What stands between today and that vision is trust. Nur compared it to self-driving cars, noting people hold differing views on how reliable such technology must be before they rely on it, and Devon Energy's Heath Satterfield argued that failures are necessary for improvement — starting with low-risk activities before moving to higher-risk ones. Petrobras America's Marcelo Bastos described the arc as AI moving from a tool an expert operates to an assistant delegated a task, with the industry only at "the beginning of this era."