> >How about leveraging AI/ChatGPT, Alexa, Siri, etc. to help predict the outcomes when starting with these reagents and using the described process?
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> >Has anyone tried using one of these to predict potentially dangerous outcomes?

I know of one effort, although I don’t believe it does involves AI (depending on your definition of AI). The Purdue Reactive Hazard Evaluation Analysis and Compilation Tool can be found at
https://rheact.github.io/#/welcome
Based on the data they ask for and logic they describe there, I don’t think that AI’s strengths of sifting through word combinations is likely to be helpful in predicting outcomes.

More specfically, in addition to SDS’s, the Purdue tools walks the user through these steps:
" • Parsing multiple Safety Data Sheets (SDSs) for chemical and safety information
• Creating an operational chemical hazard matrix
• Generating a pairwise chemical compatibility matrix
• Calculating final reaction temperature after an adiabatic temperature change
• Providing PPE recommendations from SDS and PPE questionnaire
We aim for RHEACT to be a quick preliminary screening tool that alerts users about hazards and pushes them to perform further analysis.”

Given that each of these steps need to be sanity-checked to be used for safety decision-making, the data and logic requirements here don’t appear to be quick or preliminary to me.

- Ralph

Ralph Stuart, CIH, CCHO
ralph**At_Symbol_Here**rstuartcih.org

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