AI Is Like Electricity: Why LLM Adoption Needs Governance to Unlock Productivity

What does the early adoption of electricity have in common with today’s rise of Large Language Models?

In this talk, Kosmoy CEO Umberto Malesci draws a powerful parallel between the history of electricity and the current state of AI adoption.

A quote from MIT professor Tomaso Poggio sparked the idea:
“With LLMs, we are living between Volta and Maxwell.”
The invention exists. It works. But the theory, infrastructure, and organizational readiness are still catching up.

It took nearly 100 years for factories to fully adopt electricity. Not because the technology didn’t work, but because of fear, organizational inertia, and missing tools to make it safe, measurable, and governable.

AI today feels strikingly similar.

This video is the opening section of a presentation Umberto shared with the Kosmoy team and advisory board, exploring why real AI productivity gains depend not only on models, but on governance, control, and the right infrastructure.

And yes, it includes the story of why President Harrison once refused to touch the White House light switches.

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