Anthropic paper reframes the AI growth debate as differences in a few parameters
akorinek · x · 2026-09-09
The introduction post of Anthropic's economic scenarios thread: Korinek's first working paper at Anthropic, co-authored with Chad Jones, Szymon Sacher, Tess Cotter, and Peter McCrory. The core idea: estimates of AI's impact on productivity and jobs span orders of magnitude and are hard to compare, so the paper restates the debate as differences in a handful of parameters, enabling systematic comparison of scenarios.
Related event: Anthropic Models 2030 AI Economy: Up to 15% Annual GDP Growth(16 posts)→
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