This feels only vaguely less affronting than "guns don't kill people, bullets do". AI is, for the foreseeable, the work of extremely vast troves of resources.

This feels only vaguely less affronting than "guns don't kill people, bullets do". AI is, for the foreseeable, the work of extremely vast troves of resources. Countless of the most expensive chips on the planet, the best interconnects, the highest paid expert teams. Whatever the output is, these inputs are the firing mechanism that creates & keeps the AI firing.