Anthropic's economic policy framework backs $200m fund for RCTs on AI labor disruption
jackclarkSF · x · 2026-09-09
Jack Clark outlined Anthropic's two new policy proposals: an Advanced AI Framework and an Economic Policy Framework. The latter offers US policy recommendations for AI-driven labor market disruption, tiered across three levels of impact. Clark notes the scenarios deliberately stay silent on policy interventions to spark this exact debate, and Anthropic is funding RCTs from its $200m economic research fund to generate evidence for interventions.
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