AI Control for Fusion Reactors

DeepMind will apply its Torax AI to simulate and optimize plasma behavior in Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ SPARC reactor, and the partners are exploring AI‑based real‑time control. Fusion requires continuously tuning many magnetic and operational parameters faster than humans can, which AI can potentially handle. If successful, AI control could be the key to sustaining net‑energy fusion. — AI‑enabled fusion would reshape energy, climate, and industrial policy by accelerating the arrival of scalable, clean baseload power and embedding AI in high‑stakes cyber‑physical control.