Anthropic выделяет $200 млн на исследования экономических последствий ИИ

Anthropic announced on July 22, 2026 the launch of the Economic Futures Research Fund, a $200 million fund to support external research on how to prepare society and the economy for the consequences of widespread AI adoption.

What the $200 million will go toward

The fund finances external research into interventions that would make the economy more flexible and resilient, ensure the benefits of AI are broadly distributed, and minimize the damage from the disruptions it causes. Anthropic is betting on scale: according to the company, most grants will range from $5–30 million, with the possibility of larger amounts for well-developed, high-potential initiatives.

There are five priority areas:

• The impact of AI on workers at the company and job level
• Helping people adapt to AI-driven transitions
• Modernizing income-support systems amid job displacement
• Building worker ownership stakes in AI-driven growth before disruptions hit
• New data on public investment

Each area is not an abstraction but a call for concrete field experiments. Anthropic states outright that it is ready to fund creative and ambitious pilots in cases where randomized trials alone would yield only incremental results.

Why Anthropic is changing its approach

The fund represents a major evolution of the Economic Futures program, launched in the summer of 2025. Anthropic is deliberately moving away from many small grants toward large bets, citing two reasons: it expects the biggest projects to deliver the greatest impact, and experience has shown it cannot scale management of a large number of small grants at once.

The foundation for this is the Economic Policy Framework (EPF) document, published in June 2026, in which Anthropic proposed programs and policies for various AI development scenarios. But, as the company acknowledges, it lacks empirical evidence of which interventions actually work in an economy transformed by AI — which ones make it more flexible and distribute benefits more broadly.

What is required of researchers

Anthropic is looking for partners willing to publicly share interim results at key milestones, not only upon project completion. The logic is about speed: a signal that arrives early enough to act on can be worth more than a response that comes too late. The company is especially interested in pilots that can be rapidly scaled if they show results.

"We may be entering a period without historical precedent, where the most promising solutions are ones no one has tried yet,"

Anthropic's blog states.

The fund is described as global. The company acknowledges that the areas described are skewed toward the United States — its headquarters are in San Francisco, and Claude is used in the US more than in any other country — but readiness for disruption will be needed worldwide, and Anthropic promises to fund projects with that in mind.

What this means

Anthropic is shifting the conversation about AI's economic consequences from the realm of forecasts to the realm of testable experiments. $200 million for large randomized trials and ambitious pilots is an attempt to build an evidence base in advance, before the technology changes the labor market faster than traditional research cycles can keep up.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much money is Anthropic allocating to the fund?

Anthropic is committing to invest $200 million. Most projects will receive grants in the $5–30 million range, and for select well-developed, high-potential initiatives the amount may be higher.

What research does the fund finance?

The fund supports large randomized controlled trials (RCTs) and ambitious pilots across five priority areas — from AI's impact on jobs to modernizing income support and new data on public investment.