It is good to hear this from a well studied and celebrated economist.

It reminds us that what you are doing when you are letting 'agenticAI' etc into your workplace, community spaces, culture at large, is helping extend (US) corporate power (and in so doing, the US gov).

While you have been engineered by the market to believe otherwise, you are not necessarily better off using these tools. You have instead been tooled, and you're not getting paid for it.

Big AI is first and foremost a trojan

Sure there's a lot of healthy skepticism around productivity & AI, but what of reputational damage from using it?

It's surely a thing in the arts, where the ballooning distaste around genAI is making it a risk to use in your practice (bit like NFT's, who remembers).

In my own arcane tech circles I'm starting to see murmurs of the same, where to do vibe coding is to mark yourself, tainting trust of peers.

I'll guess we'll see what the 'costs' are of the broader cultural fallout.