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Anthropic Modeled What AI Could Do by 2030 — the Economy Gets 32% Richer While Workers Get Left Behind

The tool uses scenarios from nearly 11,000 survey responses to show AI could boost output while leaving some workers displaced.

  • Anthropic launched an interactive tool allowing users to explore how artificial intelligence could reshape the United States economy by modeling impacts on GDP, Workers, and Unemployment.
  • Researchers modeled three versions of the United States economy for 2030, ranging from modest changes to extreme transformations, though Anthropic stresses these are scenarios, not forecasts.
  • In extreme scenarios, GDP rises 32.4 percent while Annual growth reaches 15.4 percent, yet Unemployment among Knowledge-work occupations reaches 17.9 percent and Unemployment across the United States hits 11.9 percent.
  • Knowledge-Work employment falls 21.5 percent and Workers see wages fall 11.5 percent, while Workers outside AI-exposed occupations see pay climb 33.6 percent relative to the no-AI United States economy.
  • A survey of nearly 11,000 people showed public demand for AI is mixed, and Anthropic assumes that before the AI shock, Labor receives 60 cents of every dollar of economic output.
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Anthropic has published an economic model with three scenarios for the US economy by 2030. In extreme cases, economic performance doubles every 4.5 years, unemployment among knowledge workers rises to 17.9 percent. The article Anthropic's new economic model classifies the gloomy job forecasts of its CEO as an extreme scenario appeared first on The Decoder.

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