Benjamin Krause

Anthropic partners with University of Chicago's Becker Friedman Institute on AI economic research

Anthropic announced a partnership with the University of Chicago's Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI) to study AI's impact on labor markets and the broader economy. BFI faculty will receive Claude for Enterprise access, training sessions, and virtual workshops as part of the collaboration. The partnership extends Anthropic's Economic Index initiative, aiming to combine Anthropic's usage data with BFI's economic expertise to produce more rigorous analysis of AI's distributional, productivity, and labor market effects for policymakers.