Morning Edition · Sunday, September 27, 2026Published at 2:30 AM EDT · New York
The extreme scenario assumes 15 percent annual growth and roughly 18 percent unemployment among knowledge workers, while more than 10,000 surveyed Americans expect outcomes closer to the middle scenario.

Anthropic's economics team released an interactive model laying out three paths for the United States economy through 2030, published as Scenarios for our Economic Future. The modest scenario puts 2030 output at $34.1 trillion, about 1.6 pe…
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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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