Anthropic Institute Paper Models AI Scenarios: GDP Up to 32% Above Trend by 2030
bittingthembits · x · 2026-09-19
A thread breaks down an Anthropic Institute paper by Charles Jones, one of the most cited growth economists alive, and Anton Korinek, who wrote the book on worker-replacing technology. It models three scenarios for GDP, wages and capital through 2030:
- Modest: AI is a normal technology; GDP just 1.6% above trend by 2030, nothing changes.
- Substantial: AI is bigger than the internet; GDP 8.3% above trend with 5.4% annual growth. Capital's share of income rises from 40% to 44% in four years — compressing the entire four-decade post-1980 decline in US labor share into one presidential term.
- Extreme: AI does nearly half of today's cognitive work by 2030; GDP 32% above trend with 15.4% annual growth.
The author stresses this is a peer-level economic model, not a crypto thread, and uses it to argue for a bullish case on Bittensor ($TAO).
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