Can an AI Black Box Be Trusted to Run a Nuclear Reactor?

China has unveiled a daring new plan to integrate artificial intelligence throughout the nuclear energy life cycle.

This week, at the World Artificial Intelligence Conference (WAIC) in Shanghai, researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) revealed a new plan for safely integrating artificial intelligence into the nuclear sector, called ADANES  – the Accelerator-Driven Advanced Nuclear Energy System.

The system “fundamentally changes the safety logic that governs conventional nuclear reactors” and marks a major turning…