Industrial AI Already Escapes The Governance Debate

While policy attention concentrates on large language models and consumer AI systems, the AI managing factories, grids, supply chains, and logistics operates in a regulatory vacuum—despite controlling critical infrastructure that millions depend on daily. The governance frameworks emerging around ChatGPT and image generation do not address the requirements of systems that make real-time decisions affecting physical safety, economic continuity, and resource allocation. The most visible AI gets the most rules while the most consequential AI operates with minimal oversight.