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Morning Edition · Wednesday, September 30, 2026Published at 2:34 AM EDT · New York
Anthropic's Economic Model Puts 2030 US Output Between 1.6% and 32% Above a No-AI Path
The lab's interactive explorer pairs its most aggressive growth scenario with cognitive-worker unemployment of 17.9 percent, and lets more than 10,000 surveyed Americans run their own assumptions.
Anthropic's economics team has published an interactive model of how AI could affect United States growth, jobs and wages through 2030. It offers three scenarios and lets users substitute their own assumptions. In the modest scenario, 2030…
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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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