Wharton associate professor of finance Sylvain Catherine said his views on AI have "radically shifted" after watching interviews with industry leaders and experts. In a post on X on Sunday, Catherine said he loves the tools and spends $200 a month on Claude, which he said is worth every penny and could deliver significant increases to future GDP and help solve major global challenges. However, he wrote that he cannot comprehend why the industry is not much more regulated, as its leaders and employees seem to request themselves, and questioned why frontier labs must develop ever more powerful models when enormous gains are readily available from deploying current technology in economic and scientific organizations. He said his median scenario is that AI will diffuse slowly and lift GDP growth by a percentage point or so, causing some economic disruption while people ultimately get new jobs and maybe work less, but he is deeply uncomfortable with the "absolutely wild level of uncertainty" around this prediction and finds some industry leaders' utopia scenarios "actually dystopian."