Anthropic Model Warns AI Gains May Favor Investors Over Workers

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Anthropic has launched an interactive economic model warning that AI-driven prosperity may flow disproportionately to investors rather than workers. The Amazon-backed AI company's economics team, working with economists including Anton Korinek and Chad Jones, modeled three adoption scenarios by 2030. In the most moderate scenario, AI delivers an internet-scale impact, leaving GDP just 1.6% above the no-AI baseline with unemployment within its historical range. In the middle scenario, where AI independently completes about half of all knowledge-based work, U.S. GDP reaches $36 trillion, 8.3% above baseline, with unemployment at approximately 4.6%, but headline wage growth of 2.1% masks a split: knowledge-worker pay falls 0.3% while other occupations gain 5.9%, and labor's share of national output drops from 60% to 56.1%. In the most aggressive scenario, annual growth accelerates to 15%, GDP hits $44.4 trillion, 32% above baseline, with the economy doubling every 4.5 years, while knowledge-worker wages fall more than 10% and capital's share of GDP surges to 55%.

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