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.
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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 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 Launches The Anthropic Institute for AI Societal Impact Research
Anthropic is establishing The Anthropic Institute, a new interdisciplinary research body led by co-founder Jack Clark in his new role as Head of Public Benefit. The Institute consolidates and expands three existing Anthropic teams—Frontier Red Team, Societal Impacts, and Economic Research—to study AI's effects on economies, jobs, governance, and legal systems. Notable founding hires include Matt Botvinick (AI and rule of law), Anton Korinek (transformative AI economics), and Zoë Hitzig (AI social/economic impacts). Anthropic is simultaneously expanding its Public Policy organization and opening a Washington DC office.
Anthropic signs MOU with UK Government to explore AI transformation of public services
Anthropic signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UK's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to explore deploying Claude in UK public services, including government information access and digital service delivery. The partnership will also cover AI supply chain security, R&D collaboration, and workforce adaptation, drawing on Anthropic's Economic Index for labor market insights. Anthropic will continue working with the UK AI Security Institute on capability evaluation and safety. The announcement includes several existing government deployments of Claude as illustrative context.
Anthropic launches AI for Science program offering free API credits to researchers
Anthropic is launching an AI for Science program that provides free API credits to qualified researchers at academic institutions, with a focus on biology, life sciences, drug discovery, and agricultural productivity. Researchers are selected based on scientific contribution, potential impact, and AI's ability to accelerate their work. The initiative aligns with Dario Amodei's 'Machines of Loving Grace' vision and represents a structured philanthropic/access program rather than a technical release.
Anthropic Partners with UK Government to Deploy Claude-Powered AI Assistant on GOV.UK
Anthropic has been selected by the UK's Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) to build and pilot an AI-powered assistant for GOV.UK, initially focused on helping job seekers navigate employment services and training resources. The system is described as agentic, maintaining context across interactions and routing users to appropriate services. The partnership builds on a February 2025 MOU and follows DSIT's 'Scan, Pilot, Scale' phased deployment framework, with Anthropic engineers embedded alongside civil servants at the Government Digital Service. A stated goal is building independent AI and AI safety expertise within the UK government.