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Morning Edition · Sunday, September 20, 2026Published at 2:20 AM EDT · New York
Anthropic Models Capital's Income Share Rising to 54.8% by 2030 in Its Most Extreme AI Scenario
The lab's economics team published three paths in which United States output ends 1.6%, 8.3% or 32.4% above a no-AI baseline, with knowledge-worker unemployment at 2.9%, 4.5% or 17.9%.
Anthropic's economics team published Scenarios for our Economic Future, a model of how AI affects growth, employment and wages through 2030. It runs three cases, labelled modest, substantial and extreme, keyed to how fast capabilities impro…
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Frontier Labs Publish the Macro Case for Their Own Technology
AI labs increasingly publish formal macroeconomic scenarios — GDP paths, labor-share trajectories, displacement estimates — that become reference inputs to fiscal and regulatory debate, so expect recurring lab-authored economic modeling, contested replication by academic and official forecasters, and policy anchored on numbers the vendors themselves produced.
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