A research agenda for the Economic Futures Research Fund
We're committing $200 million to the Anthropic Economic Futures Research Fund to support ambitious external research. Economic Research A research agenda for the Economic Futures Research Fund Jul 22, 2026 We're sharing the research agenda for the Anthropic Economic Futures Research Fund. We're committing $200 million to the fund to support ambitious external research on interventions to prepare society for the economic impacts of AI.
Key Takeaways
- With the research the Fund supports, we want to study what programs could make the economy more flexible and resilient, ensure the benefits of AI are shared, and minimize the harm that AI-driven disruption could cause.
- But we need more empirical evidence on which interventions might actually work in an AI-transformed economy-which ones make the economy more flexible and resilient, and spread the gains broadly.
In the face of this uncertainty, our aim is to build this evidence base so that workers, firms, and governments have room to adapt.
- We're updating our focus to ambitious projects and large grants, because we think it's where we can have the highest impact.
We've always thought that it's important to fund big external research bets; this shift will let us do so.
- We aim to fund large-scale RCTs or ambitious, creative pilots or program evaluations that expand our shared understanding of what shows promise and in which contexts, fill gaps where evidence is thin, and inspire new solutions.
The fundable directions below lay out a set of possibilities, but we know that we have not come up with all the good ideas in this space.
- But the need to prepare for disruption will be necessary worldwide, and we expect to fund projects in a way that reflects that.
Stats & Key Facts
- #We're committing $200 million to the Anthropic Economic Futures Research Fund to support ambitious external research.
- #We're committing $200 million to the fund to support ambitious external research on interventions to prepare society for the economic impacts of AI.
- #This $200 million fund will support external research on interventions proposed in the EPF and on other open questions.
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