As job losses loom, Anthropic launches program to track AI's economic fallout

I feel like stuff like this and "oh look our AI tried to kill us" is just marketing to make their models look more powerful than they are.

> Amid this backdrop, Anthropic on Friday launched its Economic Futures Program, a new initiative to support research on AI’s impacts on the labor market and global economy and to develop policy proposals to prepare for the shift.

“Everybody’s asking questions about what are the economic impacts [of AI], both positive and negative,” Sarah Heck, head of policy programs and partnerships at Anthropic, told TechCrunch. “It’s really important to root these conversations in evidence and not have predetermined outcomes or views on what’s going to [happen].”

Sounds more like "oh shit, public opinion moves in the wrong direction and governments are threatening regulation, so we need some scientific-looking papers we can whip out to support our narrative - and 'policy proposals' to fend off regulation."

Especially when the next paragraph shows what they understand as "evidence-based":

> At least one prominent name has shared his views on the potential economic impact of AI: Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei. In May, Amodei predicted that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs and spike unemployment to as high as 20% in the next one to five years.

I'm sure that Misanthropic sponsored studies are entirely unbiased and accurate.

This is either marketing or virtue signaling or both.

It’s disturbing how excited Anthropic’s team is that so many people will be thrown out of work.

Also known as KPIs

"Cancer is cured, the economy grows at 10% a year, the budget is balanced — and 20% of people don't have jobs"

That's a "prediction" by Amodei.

It's just words. Pure bullshit. Diminishing my otherwise high opinion of Anthropic.

Easily the biggest reason I left anthropic recruiter on read.

In other news, Exxon launches program to track fossil fuels effect on climate change.

The future looks bleak.

"If there is job loss, then we should convene a collective group of thinkers to talk about mitigation."

While this is probably nonsense, if its a way to get us to implement basic income that could be a positive.

Jack Clark was out before congress yesterday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GDNrUZBZDA4 - fwiw, I've known Jack for almost 20 years now and we talk relatively regularly, he's not in marketing, and he means what he says.