Compliant Is Not the Same as Safe

Grocery retailers are beginning to adopt AI for things like demand forecasting and inventory optimization, often without fully considering what happens once these systems are actually running. This risk assessment walks through a realistic grocery use case and makes the case that regulatory compliance and true safety are not the same thing. It looks at physical and regulatory compliance, IT asset and licensing risk, and a less obvious but critical third layer: behavioral and alignment risk, the ways a capable system can still cause harm even while checking every required box.