When AI Agents Talk to Each Other: What the Electric Power Grid Reveals About the Next Phase of Intelligence
As AI shifts from single models to interacting agents, intelligence becomes a coordination problem. The electric grid—bound by physics, reliability, and accountability—reveals why agent-to-agent reasoning must be structured, legible, and constrained long before deployment.
AI in Grid Planning: The Burden of Proof
AI can accelerate planning work, but speed is not an evidentiary standard. The more an AI output can shape an infrastructure decision, the more utilities should require traceability, independent validation, reproducibility, controlled change, and accountable engineering judgment.
Tianqiao Zhao
