As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI’s economic fallout

The Silicon Valley estimated the promise of a generative AI to forge new career paths and economic opportunities – as the newly coveted Solo unicorn startup. Banks and analysts praised AI potential to increase GDP. But these gains are unlikely to be also distributed Faced with what many expect to be Employment loss linked to widespread AI.

In the middle of this backdrop, Anthropic Friday spear Its future Economic program, a new initiative to support research on AI impacts on the labor market and the global economy and to develop policy proposals to prepare for change.

“Everyone asks questions about the economic impacts [of AI]Both positive and negative, “said Sarah Heck, responsible for political programs and partnerships at Anthropic” [happen]. “”

At least a leading name has shared its point of view on the potential economic impact of AI: the CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei. In May, Amodei foreseen This AI could eliminate half of all entry -level white collar work and increase unemployment up to 20% in the coming at five years.

When asked if one of the main objectives of the Anthropic Economic Future Program was to seek ways to mitigate the job loss linked to AI, Heck was careful, noting that the disruptive changes that the AI ​​will bring could be “both good and bad”.

“I think the key goal is to understand what is really going on,” she said. “If there is a job loss, we must summon a collective group of thinkers to talk about mitigation. If there will be a huge expansion of GDP, we should also summon political decision -makers to understand what to do. I do not think it is a monolith.”

The program is based on the Economic indexLaunched in February, which has accredited anonymized data to analyze the effects of AI on the labor markets and the economy over time – data that many of its competitors lock behind the walls of the company.

The program will focus on three main areas: offering subsidies to researchers investigating the effect of AI on labor, productivity and value creation; Creation of forums to develop and assess policy proposals to prepare the economic impacts of the AI; And build data sets to follow the economic use and the economic impact of the AI.

Anthropic is launching the program with certain action articles.

The company has opened requests for its rapid subsidies of up to $ 50,000 for “empirical research on the economic impacts of AI”, as well as policy proposals based on evidence for anthropogical accommodated symposium events in Washington, DC and Europe in the fall. Anthropic is also looking for partnerships with independent research institutions and will provide partners with API Claude credits and other resources to support research.

For subsidies, Heck noted that Anthropic is looking for individuals, academics or teams that can offer high quality data in a short time.

“We want to be able to finish it in the six months,” she said. “It should not necessarily be evaluated by peers.”

For symposiums, Anthropic wants political ideas from a wide variety of horizons and intellectual perspectives, Heck said. She noted that political proposals would go “beyond work”.

“We want to better understand the transitions,” she said. “How do work flows occur new ways?” How are new jobs created that no one has ever contemplated before? … How do some skills remain precious while others are not? ”

Heck said that Anthropic also hopes to study the effects of AI on fiscal policy. For example, what happens if there is a major change in the way companies see value creation?

“We really want to open the opening here to things that can be studied,” said Heck. “The work is certainly part of it, but it is a much wider band.”

Anthropic Rival Openai published his own Economic plan In January, which focuses more on public aid to adopt AI tools, to build robust IA infrastructure infrastructure and to establish “IA economic zones” which rationalize regulations to promote investment. While OpenAi Stargate Project to build data centers across the United States in partnership with Oracle and Softbank would create thousands of construction jobs, Openai does not directly deal with the loss of jobs linked to AI in its economic plan.

The Openai Plan is however in the process of describing executives where the government could play a role in the training pipelines of the supply chain, invest in the literacy of AI, support regional training programs and set up public university access to be calculated to promote the local IA-alphabetical staff.

Anthropic’s economic impact program is part of a slow but growing change among some technological companies to position themselves in the solution to the disruption they help to create – whether by concern for reputation, a real altruism or a mixture of the two. For example, Thursday, Co-Hail Company Lyft launched a forum To collect comments from human drivers because it begins to integrate Robotaxie into its platform.