Economic Futures
The Anthropic Economic Futures Research Fund supports ambitious external research on interventions to prepare society for the economic impacts of AI.
Research fund priorities
Shaping AI’s impact on workers at the firm and workplace level
Field experiments can help us understand which collaborative patterns develop human expertise alongside AI, how organizational design choices affect productivity, and what difference worker voice makes in those choices.
Equipping people to navigate AI-driven transitions
The evidence on retraining and job placement is mixed, and it may not generalize to AI-induced disruption and rapid structural transformation. We want to find out whether promising programs could scale quickly across a broader population.
Modernizing income support for AI-driven displacement
Many insurance systems for supporting displaced workers assume that joblessness is temporary. If AI leads to broader, more persistent displacement, we’ll need instruments calibrated to a new equilibrium.
Building worker stakes in AI-driven growth before disruption arrives
Our Economic Policy Framework (EPF) discusses universal pre-distributive capital accounts and adjacent mechanisms. But these have limited direct empirical precedent at scale.
Read frameworkGenerating new evidence on public investments
The EPF calls for modernizing the income safety net and expanding public investment in human- and community-facing work. Policymakers need a consistent way to compare these instruments against one another, and against direct transfers.
