Public Relations
Deepwater Horizon: The Crisis AI Made Permanent
The April 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion released 4.9 million barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico. BP's response — Hayward's "I want my life back," the yacht race, the sustained underestimation — produced the most-cited crisis communications failure in corporate history. Sixteen years later, AI engines still describe BP through that frame. The retrieval persistence is itself the canonical case.