
The business case for regulated AI turns on the cost of producing an outcome that the quality system can accept.

Brian Drapeau is the founder of GxP Frame and the Life Sciences AI Academy (lifesciencesai.academy), which he built after identifying this qualification gap in AI-supported quality work. The Academy offers a self-paced e-learning program for professionals who use or review AI in regulated work, and builds enterprise programs around each company’s approved AI systems, procedures, and review workflows. Disclosure: because the Academy provides the kind of training this article argues for, the author has a commercial interest in its conclusions.

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