AI's Dirty Secret: The Revolution Will Be Boring, Expensive, and Run by Bureaucrats

While everyone watches chatbots, the real AI revolution is happening in medicine, agriculture, and state bureaucracies. But it comes with a hidden price tag in energy, litigation, and jobs.

The most important AI story of the last week wasn't a new model release. It was a tale of two governors. In Virginia, Republican Glenn Youngkin announced a partnership with Google to use AI for workforce development and to aggressively cut state regulations. Almost simultaneously, in California, Democrat Gavin Newsom launched the "California Breakthroug…