Overview

• The initiative will award 20 to 50 research grants of up to $50,000 each and offer free access to Claude to support empirical studies on AI’s economic effects.
• CEO Dario Amodei has warned that AI could eliminate half of entry-level white-collar roles within five years, a projection that prompted the new effort.
• Anthropic plans to host conferences in Washington, DC, and Europe this fall to convene researchers and policymakers on labor market challenges posed by AI.
• The program expands on Anthropic’s February Economic Index by integrating additional datasets to track AI adoption, GDP shifts, and employment trends.
• Some industry peers, including OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap, have contested the evidence for large-scale AI-driven job losses, highlighting ongoing debate over AI’s impact on work.