Economist willcb calls Anthropic's econ team survey-derived modeling 'unserious'
willcb · x · 2026-10-19
willcb calls out an Anthropic economic modeling team output derived from survey inputs, arguing that knowing its provenance "does not excuse its unseriousness." He follows up asking what the Anthropic econ modeling team is "smoking." A notable external critique of a frontier lab's economic-impact research methodology.
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