AI macro scenarios: 3% of spending, 80% of modern GDP; extreme case +32%

Anthropic's economic team, with MIT and Stanford scholars, modeled AI scenarios to 2030 using a task-based labor model, with an extreme case of 32% above-trend GDP growth and 17.9% white-collar unemployment. A separate estimate holds AI spending at just 3% of GDP yet supporting about 80% of modern output.

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