Gary Basin: frontier labs' $40T/year path is a Universal Basic Management Consultant
max_paperclips · x · 2026-10-12
Gary Basin argues frontier labs can reach trillions per year without curing cancer or replacing white-collar work. Instead, he proposes building a "Universal Basic Management Consultant" for the developing world — scaling developed-world management consulting expertise through AI. He sizes the opportunity at roughly $40 trillion per year.
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