When AI Stops Advising and Starts Actuating
Agentic AI is moving from dashboards into direct control of industrial and grid operations, and assurance frameworks have not caught up.
Agentic AI is moving from dashboards into direct control of industrial and grid operations, and assurance frameworks have not caught up.
Standardized interfaces letting AI agents command industrial machinery force a functional safety decision that most operators have not yet made.
As AI moves into industrial control systems, the EU Cyber Resilience Act and NIS2 impose a separate, faster-moving obligation than AI Act safety rules.
With no coherent US AI framework and federal-state tension over infrastructure rules, energy and industrial operators should build to the strictest tested standard now.