The biggest misconception about AI is that it's here to replace people.

After building 250+ AI systems across industries — defense, healthcare, manufacturing, finance — I can tell you with certainty: the best outcomes happen when AI handles the repetitive, data-heavy tasks and humans handle judgment, creativity, and nuance.

The radiologist who uses AI to pre-screen 200 scans and focuses her expertise on the 15 that need human attention? She's better at her job, not replaced in it. The engineer who uses AI to generate boilerplate code and spends his time on architecture decisions? Same thing.

AI augments. At scale. That's the real story.

Not as clickbait-worthy as "AI will take your job." But much closer to the truth.