Artificial Intelligence has the capacity to transform jobs, businesses and industries, drive productivity and boost long-term economic growth, including delivering a more affordable, reliable and responsive energy system for consumers. In the energy system, AI technologies can make more efficient use of assets, meaning we need to build less at lower cost while improving the quality of service for consumers. Government proposes setting three high-level principles to guide AI deployment in the energy system, ensuring deployment by market actors is facilitated where it delivers system value and constrained where risks are unacceptable, so that AI deployment is safe, ethical and aligned with societal expectations. This vision sets out early-stage thinking on how AI could transform the energy system over time, using two complementary lenses to explore scaling and connecting AI across networks and assets, and to test what might change if AI autonomy and system integration advance rapidly.