Containment is the hardest problem with fusion reactors, and ML directly addresses it. (Obviously, ML doesn't directly solve fusion.) Now it's likely that there

Containment is the hardest problem with fusion reactors, and ML directly addresses it. (Obviously, ML doesn't directly solve fusion.) Now it's likely that there will be a commercially viable fusion reactor in the 2030s, whereas it used to be the case that a proof of concept was perpetually 30 years away.