Silicon Valley has opened the promise of generative artificial intelligence to forge new career paths and economic opportunities – such as the recent area Unicorn Solist Startup. Banks and analysts have toutd ai Potential to increase GDP. Buthose earnings are Enlightenment Distributed in the same way Faced with what many expect to be Loss of work widespread in AI.
In the midst of this background, anthropic on Friday launched Its economic futures program, a new initiative to support research on the impacts of the AI on the labor market and on the global economy and to develop the propagation of policies for change.
“Everyone makes questions about what are the economic impacts [of AI]Both positive and negative, “Sarah Heck, head of political programs and partnerships at Anthropic, told Techcrunch.” It is really important to carry out the root of these conversations in evidence and not have predetermined results or opinions on what is going [happen]. “
At least a prominent name shared his opinions on the potential economic impact of the AI: the anthropic CEO Dario Amodei. In May, Amodei expected That artificial intelligence could wipe out half of all the works with white entrance collars and the amplitude of peak up to 20% in the next to five years.
When he was asked if one of the key objectives of the anthropic economic futures program was to seek ways to mitigate the loss of jobs linked to artificial intelligence, Heck was cautious, observing that the disruptive shifts that the IA that will bring could be “good and bad”.
“I think the key goal is to understand what is really happening,” he said. “If there is a loss of work, then we should convene a collective group of thinkers to talk about mitigation. If there is a huge expansion of GDP, great. We should also political managers to understand what to do.
The program is based on the existence of anthropic Economic indexLaunched in February, that the open source have aggregated and anonymous data to analyze the effects of the AI on the work markets and the economy compared to the temporal data that its competitors block behind the corporate Wallls.
The program will focus on three main areas: provide subsidies to researchers who study the effect of A at work, productivity and on the creation of value; Create forums to develop and evaluate political proposals to prepare for the economic impacts of AA; and build data sets to keep track of the economic use and impact of the AI.
Anthropic is giving way to the program with some objects of action.
The company has opened applications for its rapid subsidies up to $ 50,000 for “empirical research on the economic impacts of the AI”, as well as political opponents based on evidence for anthropic symposia events in Washington, DC and Europe in autumn. Anthropic is also looking for partnerships with independent research institutes and will provide partners with claude API credits and other resources to support research.
For the subsidies, Heck has observed that Anthropic is looking for individuals, academics or teams that can find high quality data in a short period of time.
“We want to be able to complete it without six months,” he said. “It’s not necessarily to be peer-reviewed.”
For symposia, anthropic wants political ideas from a wide variety of backgrounds and intellectual perspectives, said Heck. He is unable to go “beyond work”.
“We want to understand more about transitions,” he said. “How do work flows take place in new ways? How are new jobs created that nobody has ever contemplated before? … How do some skills remain precious while others not?”
Heck said anthropic also hopes to study the effects of the AI on tax policy. For example, what happens if there is a great change in the way companies see the creation of value?
“We really want to open the opening here on things that can be studied,” said Heck. “Work is certainly one of these, but it is a very wide range.”
The anthropic rival Openi has published its own Economic blueprint In January, which focuses more on helping the public to adopt artificial intelligence tools, build robust artificial intelligence infrastructures and establish “economic intelligence areas” that simplify regulations to promote investments. While Openi’s Stargate Project to build data centers in the United States with Oracle and SoftBank would create thousands of construction works, Openi does not directly deal with the loss of jobs relating to artificial intelligence in his economic project.
Blueprint des of Openai, Everve, outlines in which the government could play a role in the formation of the supply chain, investing in the Litecy, Boty Regional Training Programs and reducing access to the public university for calculation to encourage the local work forces of AI.
The anthropic economic impact program is part of a slow but growing movement between some technological companies to position themselves as part of the solution to the interruption that are helping to create, both for concern by reputation, authentic altruism or a mix of both. For example, Thursday, Cavalcate Company Lyft launched a forum Collect inputs from human drivers as it begins to integrate robotass into its platform.
