Why the Smartest AI Bet Right Now Has Nothing to Do With AI (It's Not What You Think)

What's really happening beneath the abundance predictions at Davos? The common story is that AI will create prosperity for all, but the reality is more complicated when $4.5 trillion in productivity gains depends entirely on implementation and bottlenecks determine where value actually concentrates. In this video, I share the inside scoop on why scarcity, not abundance, is the strategic lens that matters:

• Why $4.5 trillion in AI productivity gains comes with an asterisk the size of the physical infrastructure constraints binding hyperscaler expansion

• How the trust deficit is reshaping coordination in a world of synthetic content where verification costs are rising faster than output costs are falling

• What the integration gap means for organizations that bought the tools but haven't closed the distance between capability and workflow

• Where individual bottlenecks are shifting from skills to taste and judgment as problem-finding eclipses problem-solving as the scarce resource

For builders and operators navigating 2026, the strategic question isn't whether abundance is coming. It's identifying which scarce resource you're positioned to solve before someone else does.

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