A research group has taught AI to magnetically wrangle a high-powered stream of plasma used for fusion research -- but wait! Put away your EMPs and screwdrivers, this is definitely a good thing, not a terrifying weapon for use against humanity in the coming robocalypse. The project is a collaboration between Google's DeepMind and l'École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) started years ago when AI researchers from the former and fusion researchers from the latter met at a London hackathon. EPFL's Federico Felici explained the problem his lab was having with plasma maintenance in his tokamak. Yet it struck a chord with DeepMind and the two got to work. Fusion research is conducted in many ways, but all of them involve plasmas formed at incredibly high temperatures -- hundreds of millions of degrees.