Anthropic pledged $200 million to study how artificial intelligence will affect jobs and the broader economy.
The company, maker of the Claude chatbot, said the cash will seed an Economic Futures Research Fund to back research trials and program evaluation and that it is establishing a $150 million national fellowship to help early-career professionals extend the benefits of AI across America.
“The key challenge in such a world won’t be incentivising growth, but finding a way for everyone to share in the benefits,” Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodei wrote on his personal website.
In an accompanying policy framework Amodei recommended better data collection to track displacement, pro-employment incentives to slow job loss and “mechanisms such as universal basic income” if labour demand falls permanently, funded by taxes on “relevant companies” or higher capital gains taxes.
Anthropic set out three disruption thresholds tied to national unemployment of 5%, 10% and an unspecified “unprecedented” level, saying the last would require more permanent revenue-sharing measures such as basic income, sovereign wealth models or equity-sharing; the latest reported unemployment rate was 4.3%.
The proposals also call for stronger safety controls, including the ability to block models that pose catastrophic risks and FAA-style technical testing and audits before release.
The move follows similar public commitments from OpenAI and comes as President Donald Trump said he will meet AI executives soon to discuss “giving back” to the public.
