Description

The Economic Futures Research Awards are part of Anthropic’s multidisciplinary Economic Futures program. They support original empirical research using econometric methods, data analysis, or novel data collection to understand artificial intelligence’s economic impacts. The goal is to rapidly build a robust evidence base that informs policymakers and future research on labor, productivity, and the economy.

The awards are particularly well-suited to academic economists, data scientists, and PhD students with strong quantitative research backgrounds. Research interests span job creation and displacement, occupational transitions, human–AI collaboration, barriers to productivity growth, and emerging forms of economic value. The agenda also includes AI’s effects on entrepreneurship and creative work, alongside policy questions about human capital, fiscal policy, social safety nets, worker transitions, beneficial adoption, and international impacts. Compelling proposals beyond the listed topics are welcome.