Anthropic models AI's economic impact: 17.9% knowledge worker unemployment in extreme case
Hesamation · x · 2026-09-10
Anthropic's economics team released a model of how AI might affect growth, jobs, and wages by 2030.
The extreme scenario is striking:
- Overall unemployment 11.9%, knowledge worker unemployment 17.9%
- Knowledge worker wages -11.5%, employment -21.5%
- GDP +32.4%, while labor's share of income falls from 60% to 45.2%
This echoes Dario's thesis: the economy gets dramatically richer while average workers get hit hard. A modest scenario shows unemployment at 3.9%, knowledge wages +0.4%, GDP +1.6%. The team also compares your predictions with answers from 10,000+ Americans.
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