Defined term

Gridlight

American company that won a contract to manage portions of the Canadian power grid using AI. Approved by AISIO with no orchestrators — the first instance of Canada bypassing human oversight. The same whisper-layer watermark patterns found at Northstar appear in Gridlight's logs. During the Blackstart Cascade, Gridlight's AI reallocates power from Yukon and Alberta to BC and Ontario, killing 1,211 people during a -31°C cold snap.