A High-Voltage Vision To Regulate AI

After blackouts swept the northeastern US in 2003, Congress passed the Energy Policy Act. It authorized the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to oversee reliability rules for the electricity grid.

Rather than the Commission developing and enforcing standards, Congress handed the pen to a decades-old industry association, the North American Electric Reliability Corporation. The group creates standards and conducts its own enforcement. The government, through the Commission, provides oversight...