Silicon Valley opposed the promise of generative AI forging new career ways and economic opportunities – as the newly coveted A single unicorn start. Banks and analysts liked AIs potential to accelerate GDP. But those gains are probably not distributed equally in front of what many expect to be widespread AI-related job loss.
In the middle of this background, anthropic on Friday launched Its economic future program, a new initiative to support research on AI’s effects on the labor market and global economy and develop political proposals to prepare the change.
“Everyone asks what the economic effects are [of AI]and positive and negative, “Sarah Heck, head of political programs and partnerships at Antropic, told Techcrunch.” It is really important to root these conversations and not have predefined results or views on what is happening [happen]. ”
At least one prominent name shared its views on the possible economic impact of AI: Dario Nikodei, Director General of Antropic. In May, AMODEI anticipated That AI could wipe half of all entry -level white -collar jobs and spike unemployment up to 20% in the next up to five years.
When asked if one of the main goals of Antropic’s economic future program was to explore ways to mitigate AI-related job, Heck was cautious, noting that AI’s disapproval could be “good and bad.”
“I think the key goal is to count what actually happens,” she said. “If there is a loss of work, then let’s convene a collective group of thinkers to talk about mitigation. If there is a huge GDP.
The program is based on the existence of anthropic Economic indexLaunched in February, which opens sources aggregate, anonymous data to analyze the effects of AI on labor markets and economics with the time data, which many of its competitors lock behind corporate walls.
The program will focus on three major areas: providing subsidies to researchers exploring the impact of AI on work, productivity and value -making; to create forums to develop and evaluate political proposals to prepare for the economic effects of AI; and building databases to track the economic use and impact of AI.
Antropic kicks the program with some actions.
The company opened applications for its fast subsidies of up to $ 50,000 for “empirical research on the economic effects of AI”, as well as proposals on policy policies for anthropic hosted symposium events in Washington, DC and Europe in the fall. Antropic is also looking for partnerships with independent research institutions and provide partners with Claude API credits and other resources to support research.
For the subsidies, Heck noted that Antropic is looking for individuals, academics or teams that may appear with high quality data in a short period.
“We want to be able to do it within six months,” she said. “It doesn’t necessarily have to be reviewed.”
For the symposium, Antropic wants political ideas from a wide variety of backgrounds and intellectual perspectives, Heck said. She noted that political proposals will go “beyond work.”
“We want to understand more about the transitions,” she said. “How do workflows happen in new ways? How are new jobs that no one has contemplated?
Heck said Antropic is also hoping to study the effects of AI on fiscal policy. For example, what happens if there is a major change in the way businesses see value -making?
“We really want to open the opening here about things you can study,” Heck said. “Labor is definitely one of them, but it’s much wider.”
Antropical rival Openai released his own Economic BluePrint In January, which focuses more on helping the public adopt AI tools, building a strong AI infrastructure and establishing “AI -Economic Zones”, which rationalize regulations to promote investment. While Openai Stargate A project to build data centers across the United States in partnership with Oracle and SoftBank would create thousands of building jobs, Openai does not directly address a-related job loss in its economic plan.
Openai’s Blueprint however outlines frameworks, where government could play a role in supply chain training pipelines, investing in AI alphabetization, supporting regional training programs and scaling public university access to computing local AI literacy workforce.
The program of economic impact of anthropic is part of a slow but increasing change among some technology companies to position themselves as part of the solution of the interruption they help create – either due to reputational care, genuine altruism, or a mixture of both. For example, on Thursday, a ride-hail company Lyft launched a forum Collect inputs from human drivers as it begins to integrate robotaxis into its platform.
