API Companion Meeting: AI in the Trenches: How Labs Monitor What Matters

As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly embedded in laboratory workflows, the challenge shifts from deployment to oversight. This session brings together real-world insights from institutions actively using AI-enabled analyses to explore how labs monitor performance, detect data drift, and manage out-of-distribution inputs. Speakers will share how QA/QC plans have evolved to accommodate AI, and discuss practical strategies for ensuring reliability, safety, and clinical relevance. Designed as a candid conversation between groups that have experience with running AI-enabled analyses in the lab, this session offers vendors and potential adopters a grounded view of what it takes to make AI work in practice—and what matters most when it does.