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Supporting ambitious external research through the Anthropic Economic Futures Research Fund
We’re sharing the research agenda for the Anthropic Economic Futures Research Fund. We’re committing $200 million to the fund to support ambitious external research on interventions to prepare society for the economic impacts of AI.
TL;DR
- Anthropic is committing $200 million to the Economic Futures Research Fund to support external research on AI's economic impacts.
- The fund will focus on interventions to make the economy more flexible and resilient, ensure AI benefits are shared, and minimize harm from disruption.
- Five priority research areas include AI's impact on workers, equipping people for transitions, modernizing income support, building worker stakes in growth, and public investment evidence.
- The fund seeks ambitious, creative pilots and large-scale randomized control trials, prioritizing projects in the $5-30 million range.
- Proposals are accepted from accredited universities, research institutes, policy organizations, and nonprofits with a track record in field experiments.
- The fund is global, though initial directions may appear US-centric, and seeks partners willing to share learnings publicly.
- Key research areas include field experiments on AI integration designs, evaluations of retraining and job placement, modernizing unemployment insurance, and piloting pre-distributive capital accounts.