- He predicts AI’s real economic payoff will be small — about 0.55% total‑factor productivity over the next decade, with only ~5% of tasks profitably automated (roughly a 1–1.5% GDP bump).
- Calls about 80% of current AI debate “brainless,” arguing the real worry is growing corporate concentration and extractive institutions, not vague “technofeudalism” rhetoric.
- Says we need a human‑centered policy push — wages, jobs, democracy and global AI governance (including U.S.–China cooperation) — or risk serious social fallout.
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