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October 29, 2026 ai_technology community

Why Electricity Law Would Make It Very Hard to Unplug a Rogue AI

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It’s one of the most popular what-ifs about rogue artificial intelligence: Suppose an AI agent really were to get out of control and start threatening hospitals, flights, critical infrastructure, or even humanity as a whole. Why wouldn’t we just pull the plug on it? A new report argues: We might not be able to. And the reason has to do with the energy system. A new white paper from the Climate Solutions Lab at Brown University finds that U.S. electricity law offers essentially no way to rapidly

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