News Summary

• Thomas Lee Young is the 24-year-old CEO of Interface, a San Francisco startup using AI to prevent industrial accidents.
• Young grew up in Trinidad and Tobago, the site of substantial oil and gas exploration activity.
• His family worked as engineers, stretching back generations to his great-grandfather, who immigrated to the island nation from China.
• The company’s use AI to make heavy industry safer using large language models, cross-checking them against corporate policies, and technical drawings.