X Discussion: Wharton Finance Professor Sylvain Catherine Says His $200/Month Claude Plan Is Worth It, Yet Calls for AI Regulation and No Race to Superintelligence
Wharton associate finance professor Sylvain Catherine posted on X that his views on AI have "radically shifted": he loves the tools and pays $200/month for Claude, but thinks the industry should be far more regulated and that frontier labs need not race toward superintelligence. The post drew about 48K views and 389 likes and is being shared in AI policy circles.
Key Takeaways
- He pays $200 a month for Claude and calls it "worth every penny, probably even more", and believes current tools can significantly raise future GDP.
- He cannot see why the industry is not more regulated when its own leaders and employees ask for it, and urges readers to spend an hour on the full chain of events of the Hugging Face incident.
- He argues large gains are available by deploying current technology in economic and scientific organizations, without pursuing superintelligence.
- His median scenario matches many economists: slow diffusion, roughly one extra percentage point of GDP growth, disruption along the way, and new jobs in the end.
- This is an opinion discussion, not a factual report; he says he is not trying to convince anyone, only urging people to get informed and vote accordingly.
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