{"id":220017,"date":"2025-06-28T01:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T01:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220017\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T01:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T01:02:08","slug":"as-job-losses-loom-anthropic-launches-program-to-track-ais-economic-fallout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/220017\/","title":{"rendered":"As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI’s economic fallout"},"content":{"rendered":"

Silicon Valley has opined on the promise of generative AI to forge new career paths and economic opportunities \u2013 like the newly coveted solo unicorn startup<\/a>. Banks and analysts have touted AI\u2019s potential to boost GDP<\/a>. But those gains are unlikely to be distributed equally<\/a> in the face of what many expect to be widespread AI-related job loss<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Amid this backdrop, Anthropic on Friday launched<\/a> its Economic Futures Program, a new initiative to support research on AI\u2019s impacts on the labor market and global economy and to develop policy proposals to prepare for the shift.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cEverybody\u2019s asking questions about what are the economic impacts [of AI], both positive and negative,\u201d Sarah Heck, head of policy programs and partnerships at Anthropic, told TechCrunch. \u201cIt\u2019s really important to root these conversations in evidence and not have predetermined outcomes or views on what\u2019s going to [happen].\u201d<\/p>\n

At least one prominent name has shared his views on the potential economic impact of AI: Anthropic\u2019s CEO Dario Amodei. In May, Amodei predicted<\/a> that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike unemployment to as high as 20% in the next one to five years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

When asked if one of the key goals of Anthropic\u2019s Economic Futures Program was to research ways to mitigate AI-related job loss, Heck was cautious, noting that the disruptive shifts AI will bring could be \u201cboth good and bad.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI think the key goal is to figure out what is actually happening,\u201d she said. \u201cIf there is job loss, then we should convene a collective group of thinkers to talk about mitigation. If there will be huge GDP expansion, great. We should also convene policy makers to figure out what to do with that. I don\u2019t think any of this will be a monolith.\u201d<\/p>\n

The program builds on Anthropic\u2019s existing Economic Index<\/a>, launched in February, which open-sources aggregated, anonymized data to analyze the effects of AI on labor markets and the economy over time \u2013 data that many of its competitors lock behind corporate walls.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The program will focus on three main areas: providing grants to researchers investigating AI\u2019s effect on labor, productivity, and value creation; creating forums to develop and evaluate policy proposals to prepare for AI\u2019s economic impacts; and building datasets to track AI\u2019s economic usage and impact.<\/p>\n

Anthropic is kicking off the program with some action items.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The company has opened applications for its rapid grants of up to $50,000 for \u201cempirical research on AI\u2019s economic impacts,\u201d as well as evidence-based policy proposals for Anthropic-hosted symposia events in Washington, D.C. and Europe in the fall. Anthropic is also seeking partnerships with independent research institutions and will provide partners with Claude API credits and other resources to support research.<\/p>\n

For the grants, Heck noted that Anthropic is looking for individuals, academics, or teams that can come up with high-quality data in a short period of time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to be able to complete it within six months,\u201d she said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t necessarily have to be peer-reviewed.\u201d<\/p>\n

For the symposia, Anthropic wants policy ideas from a wide variety of backgrounds and intellectual perspectives, said Heck. She noted that policy proposals would go \u201cbeyond labor.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to understand more about the transitions,\u201d she said. \u201cHow do workflows happen in new ways? How are new jobs being created that nobody ever contemplated before?\u2026How are certain skills remaining valuable while others are not?\u201d<\/p>\n

Heck said Anthropic also hopes to study the effects of AI on fiscal policy. For example, what happens if there\u2019s a major shift in the way enterprises see value creation?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe really want to open the aperture here on things that can be studied,\u201d Heck said. \u201cLabor is certainly one of them, but it\u2019s a much broader swath.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anthropic rival OpenAI released its own Economic Blueprint<\/a> in January, which focuses more on helping the public adopt AI tools, building robust AI infrastructure and establishing \u201cAI economic zones\u201d that streamline regulations to promote investment. While OpenAI\u2019s Stargate<\/a> project to build data centers across the U.S. in partnership with Oracle and SoftBank would create thousands of construction jobs, OpenAI doesn\u2019t directly address AI-related job loss in its economic blueprint.\u00a0<\/p>\n

OpenAI\u2019s blueprint does, however, outline frameworks where government could play a role in supply chain training pipelines, investing in AI literacy, supporting regional training programs, and scaling public university access to compute to foster local AI-literate workforces.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Anthropic\u2019s economic impact program is part of a slow but growing shift among some tech companies to position themselves as part of the solution to the disruption they\u2019re helping to create \u2013 whether out of reputational concern, genuine altruism, or a mix of both. For instance, on Thursday, ride-hail company Lyft launched a forum<\/a> to gather input from human drivers as it starts integrating robotaxis into its platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Silicon Valley has opined on the promise of generative AI to forge new career paths and economic opportunities…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,28396,86812,1942,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-220017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-anthropic","10":"tag-anthropic-economic-futures-program","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114758297522158567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}