Economic Futures
"The Anthropic Economic Futures program aims to support research and policy development for addressing the economic impacts of AI. It provides research grants, forums for policy discussion, and evidence on real-world AI use." Announced 2025-06-27.
Real funding commitments
- An initial $200 million commitment to an Economic Futures Research Fund, backing research trials and policy evaluation on AI's economic effects.
- A separately disclosed $150 million national fellowship program helping early-career professionals extend AI's benefits across American communities.
- International expansion: "Launching the Anthropic Economic Futures Programme in the UK and Europe" (2025-11-05).
Dario Amodei's own policy writing
CEO Dario Amodei published a personal essay proposing a tiered government policy framework for AI-driven unemployment, addressing three escalating levels -- roughly 5%, 10%, and an "unprecedented" level -- with the highest tier calling for permanent support mechanisms such as universal basic income, sovereign wealth models, and equity-sharing. This followed an earlier, widely reported May 2025 prediction that AI could eliminate half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and push unemployment as high as 20% within one to five years.
The empirical arm: Anthropic Economic Index
"The Anthropic Economic Index reveals the shape of AI adoption across the world" -- tracking how people use Claude across every US state and hundreds of occupations. Most recent listed report as of this crawl: "Anthropic Economic Index: New building blocks for understanding AI use" (2026-01-15).
Sources: anthropic.com/economic-futures, Fortune, 2026-06-11, Let's Data Science, anthropic.com/news/economic-futures-uk-europe.