Kissinger (R, foreign policy) once said that Summers (D, economic policy) should be given an advisory post in any WH administration, to help shoot down bad ideas.
No one thinks Larry Summers has any insights on AI. Adding Larry Summers is something you do purely to beg powerful, unaccountable people "please don't stop us, we're on your side".
He did help shoot down the extra spending proposals that would have made inflation today even worse. Not sure how that caused suffering and death for anyone.
And he is an adult, which is a welcome change from the previous clowncar of a board.
The fact that you think current inflation has anything to do with that stimulus bill back then shows how little you understand about any of this.
Larry Summers is the worst kind of person. Somebody who is nothing but a corporate stooge trying to act like the adult by being "reasonable", when that just means enriching his corporate friends, letting people suffer and not spending money (which any study will tell you is not the correct approach to situations like this because of multiplying effects they have down the line).
Some necessary reading:
In regards to watering it down to get GOP votes: https://archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/0...