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Supporting ambitious external research through the Anthropic Economic Futures Research Fund
Summary
The Anthropic Economic Futures Research Fund commits $200 million to external research on interventions that could help society prepare for AI’s economic impacts. It prioritizes five areas: workplace integration, support for AI-driven transitions, income support for displacement, worker stakes in AI-driven growth, and evidence on public investments. The fund will favor large-scale randomized controlled trials, ambitious pilots, and program evaluations, with particular interest in projects that share findings at key milestones and can scale rapidly if promising; typical awards will be $5 million to $30 million, with nothing below $1 million funded directly. Eligible applicants include accredited degree-granting institutions, independent research and policy organizations, and nonprofits with experience running field experiments at scale, while the fund remains global despite US-centric examples.
Context
The fund addresses uncertainty about how quickly AI will spread through the economy, what its economic effects will be, and which interventions could make the economy more flexible and resilient while broadly sharing AI’s benefits and limiting disruption.
Approach / What changed
The fund supports external large-scale randomized controlled trials, creative pilots, and program evaluations across five research priorities. It emphasizes ambitious projects, public sharing of findings at key milestones, and pilots that could scale substantially if they show promise.
Takeaways
The fund primarily targets projects requesting $5 million to $30 million, can consider larger well-scoped projects, and will not directly fund proposals below $1 million.
The five priorities cover workplace-level AI integration, preparation for AI-driven transitions, income support for displacement, mechanisms giving workers stakes in AI-driven growth, and evidence on public investments.
Eligible applicants include accredited universities and other degree-granting institutions, independent research or policy organizations, and nonprofits with a track record of running field experiments at scale.
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- anthropic.com
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