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Anthropic commits $200M to Economic Futures Research Fund for AI labor-market impact studies
Anthropic is launching a $200 million external research fund focused on studying interventions to prepare society for AI-driven economic disruption, building on its earlier Economic Futures program. The fund will prioritize five areas: workplace-level AI impact on workers, equipping people for AI-driven transitions, modernizing income support, building worker stakes in AI growth, and generating evidence on public investments. Grants will primarily range from $1M to $30M, targeting universities, research institutes, and nonprofits capable of running large-scale RCTs or ambitious pilots. The initiative reflects Anthropic's view that empirical evidence on effective interventions is urgently needed before AI-driven labor displacement accelerates.
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Anthropic Launches Economic Futures Program for AI Labor Market Research
Anthropic has announced the Economic Futures Program, a structured initiative to fund and coordinate research on AI's economic and labor market impacts. The program operates through three pillars: research grants (up to $50,000 per award), evidence-based policy symposia in Washington DC and London, and expansion of the Anthropic Economic Index into longitudinal datasets. It extends Anthropic's existing Economic Index work by adding grant funding, policy forums, and institutional partnerships to translate data into actionable policy proposals.
Anthropic Launches Economic Index: First Large-Scale Empirical Study of AI's Labor Market Impact
Anthropic has released the Anthropic Economic Index, an initiative tracking AI's effects on labor markets using anonymized data from approximately one million Claude.ai conversations matched to U.S. Department of Labor O*NET occupational tasks. Key findings show AI use is concentrated in software development and technical writing, with 36% of occupations seeing AI use in at least 25% of their tasks, and usage skewing toward augmentation (57%) over automation (43%). The underlying dataset is being open-sourced to enable independent research, and Anthropic is inviting economists and policy experts to contribute to the ongoing initiative. The analysis was enabled by Clio, Anthropic's privacy-preserving internal conversation analysis tool.
Anthropic Launches Economic Futures Programme in UK and Europe
Anthropic is expanding its Economic Futures Programme to the UK and Europe, beginning with a symposium at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The programme offers research grants, API credits, and evidence-based policy forums for UK and EU researchers studying AI's effects on labor markets and productivity. Anthropic is also expanding the Anthropic Economic Index to provide more granular, Europe-specific data on AI adoption patterns across industries and regions. Country-level usage data reveals distinct adoption patterns: academic research in the UK, manufacturing support in Germany, and culture/tourism in France.
Anthropic donates additional $20M to Public First Action, totaling $40M for AI policy education
Anthropic is contributing an additional $20 million to Public First Action, a non-partisan organization focused on AI public education and policy advocacy, bringing total support to $40 million. The announcement cites accelerating AI capabilities—including Claude Mythos Preview's discovery of thousands of high-severity software vulnerabilities—as justification for urgent policy action. Anthropic uses the occasion to reiterate its Advanced AI Framework, calling for government verification of safety claims, civil enforcement mechanisms, and the ability to slow or block deployment of catastrophically risky models. The donation also signals Anthropic's continued push for export controls on advanced chips and measures against illicit model access.
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.
Anthropic forms Economic Advisory Council to guide AI labor market research
Anthropic announced the formation of an Economic Advisory Council comprising ten distinguished economists from institutions including MIT, University of Chicago, Harvard, LSE, and Yale. The council will advise on AI's impact on labor markets, economic growth, and socioeconomic systems, informing the research agenda for Anthropic's Economic Index initiative. The move signals Anthropic's intent to build credible, policy-relevant research infrastructure around AI's economic effects, targeting policymakers and business leaders as an audience.
Anthropic and Menlo Ventures launch $100M Anthology Fund for AI startups
Anthropic has partnered with Menlo Ventures to launch the Anthology Fund, a $100 million initiative financed by Menlo to support startups building on Anthropic technology. Target investment areas include AI infrastructure, healthcare, education, scientific research, consumer AI, and trust and safety tooling. Backed startups receive access to Anthropic products, $25,000 in model credits, and venture support from Menlo. The fund represents Anthropic's effort to expand its ecosystem and accelerate adoption of Claude-based applications.
Anthropic launches 'Hard Questions' public engagement initiative on AI's societal impact
Anthropic has announced a public initiative called 'Hard Questions' inviting people to submit their most pressing concerns about AI's effects on jobs, society, families, and scientific progress. The initiative builds on prior large-scale public research including a 52,000-person U.S. survey (Anthropic Public Record), an 81,000-user global survey via Anthropic Interviewer, and in-person focus groups. Anthropic commits to publicly tracking and reporting actions taken in response to submitted questions, framing this as part of its Public Benefit Corporation mission. The initiative also introduces the Anthropic Institute as an internal research effort focused on AI's societal challenges.