Company: OC
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001370946-25-000077
Chunk: 186

Company: Owens Corning
Filing Date: 2025-02-24
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 186
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 or are reasonable likely to have, a material impact on our business strategy, results of systems, operations or financial condition. Any breach of our security measures, or those of our third-party business partners, could result in unauthorized access to and misappropriation of our information, corruption or alteration of data or disruption of operations or transactions, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business strategy, results of operations or financial condition, including costs related to remediation or the payment of ransom, litigation including individual claims or consumer class actions, commercial litigation, administrative, and civil or criminal investigations or actions, regulatory intervention and sanctions or fines, investigation and remediation costs, damage to our reputation and relationships with our business partners, and possible prolonged negative publicity.

Additionally, we regularly move data across national borders to conduct our operations and, consequently, are subject to a variety of laws and regulations in the United States and other jurisdictions regarding privacy, data protection, and data security, including those related to the collection, storage, handling, use, disclosure, transfer, and security of personal data, including the European Union General Data Protection Regulation. Our efforts to comply with privacy and data protection laws may impose significant costs and challenges that are likely to increase over time.

Emerging issues related to our development, integration and use of artificial intelligence (“AI”) could give rise to legal or regulatory action, damage our reputation or otherwise materially harm our business.

Our development, integration and use of AI technology in our operations remains in the early phases. We have started to assess the use of AI technology to drive productivity and data analytics. While we aim to develop, integrate and use AI responsibly, 

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we may ultimately be unsuccessful in identifying or resolving issues, such as accuracy issues, cybersecurity risks, unintended biases, and discriminatory outputs, before they arise. AI is a new and emerging technology in early stages of commercial use and presents a number of risks inherent in its use by us, our customers, suppliers and other business partners and third-party providers, or through the use of third-party hardware and software. These risks include, but are not limited to, ethical considerations, public perception, intellectual property protection, regulatory compliance, privacy concerns and data security, all of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial position. As a result, we cannot predict future developments in AI and related impacts to our business and our industry. If we are unable to successfully and accurately develop, integrate and