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Illustration: an armed robot standing on a stone slab in a ruined city at dusk

AI doesn't kill people — LLMs do

Founder Gary Kucher argues that "artificial intelligence" and "large language model" are not interchangeable terms, and that the difference is measured in gigawatts, aquifers, and the air over Boxtown, Memphis. A fusion reactor can be controlled by a neural network on a control rack. A 10-day global weather forecast now runs in under a minute on a single chip. The hyperscale buildout is a business model, not a technical requirement.

September 21, 2026 · Read the full op-ed

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