Description
As a Transformative AI Research Economist at Anthropic, you will build macroeconomic models of AI that could be genuinely transformative and develop the scenario-based forecasting tools that let us reason quantitatively about economic trajectories with no historical precedent.
You will ground projections in microeconomic signals from the Anthropic Economic Index , usage patterns across millions of real-world AI interactions, surfaced through privacy-preserving measurement , so that scenario forecasts are disciplined by what we actually observe about task transformation and productivity.
Our team combines rigorous empirical methods with novel measurement approaches. We're building first-of-its-kind datasets tracking AI's impact on labor markets, productivity, and economic transformation.
You will:
- Build macroeconomic models of transformative AI spanning growth, labor markets, and income distribution
- Develop and maintain scenario-based forecasting tools; publish forecasts for GDP, productivity, and unemployment under a range of AI-capability trajectories
- Ground macroeconomic projections in microeconomic data from the Anthropic Economic Index, constraining theory with observed patterns of adoption and task transformation
- Analyze questions of income distribution and economic governance under transformative-AI scenarios
- Contribute to the development of AI-powered research tools for economics
- Contribute to Economic Index Reports and publish Research Briefs on first-order questions as they arise
- Build and maintain relationships with academic institutions, policy think tanks, and other research partners
- Amplify external engagement through research publications, policy briefs, and presentations to diverse stakeholders
Required skills include proficiency in Python, Julia, or similar for computational economics, facility with AI coding agents as part of a research workflow, and comfort learning new technical tools and frameworks.
The ideal candidate works at the intersection of growth theory, forecasting, and frontier AI, and has a strong interest in ensuring AI development benefits humanity.