on Wednesday joined growing calls for the industry to find ways to cushion people from the technology’s disruptions, announcing an initial $200 million investment to research AI’s impact on jobs and the economy.
Alongside new policy proposals from the maker of the Claude chatbot, Anthropic CEO and co-founder published an essay on his that expanded on his position that the government should promise economic support for those financially impacted by AI. The technology could produce much larger disruptions to the labor market than previous technological advancements, Amodei wrote, and those disruptions could last longer.
鈥淭he key challenge in such a world won鈥檛 be incentivizing growth, but finding a way for everyone to share in the benefits,鈥� Amodei wrote.
The announcement comes on the heels of Anthropic rival OpenAI on Monday outlining goals that included ensuring gains from the technology are 鈥渨idely shared.鈥� OpenAI CEO Sam Altman recently met with Sen. Bernie Sanders to discuss a plan for the public to take an ownership stake in artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI, using their stock to create a that would spread the fortune generated by AI behemoths.
In the Oval Office on Wednesday, President Donald Trump that he will soon meet with executives from several leading AI companies to discuss 鈥済iving back鈥� to the public.
“We鈥檙e talking about giving back 鈥媠omething to the public, and if we do that, the 鈦爌ublic will become very rich,鈥� Trump said. 鈥淚 think they鈥檒l do that, and I think it鈥檒l make 鈥媔t very popular.鈥�
In his essay, Amodei said he has warned of job displacement not because he is 鈥渢rying to be a 鈥榩rophet of doom鈥欌�� but because he wants 鈥渂oth policymakers and the private sector to have the best chance to adapt and respond.鈥� He proposed better data collection to track AI job displacement, pro-employment policy incentives to slow or reduce displacement and 鈥渕echanisms such as universal basic income鈥� if job displacement more permanently drives down labor demand.
That universal basic income could be financed through taxes on “relevant companies鈥� or by raising the capital gains tax, Amodei wrote.
Scant details were available Wednesday about the $200 million commitment from Anthropic, but the company said it will go to what it calls an Economic Futures Research Fund that will back research trials and 鈥減rogram evaluation鈥� on public policies it deems promising. The company is also establishing a $150 million national fellowship program it says will help early-career professionals 鈥渆xtend the benefits of AI to communities across America.鈥�
Anthropic and OpenAI each recently announced they were moving toward of shares, following Elon Musk鈥檚 rocket company , which is pitching itself as an AI-focused space company as it prepares to go public.
The economic policy framework Anthropic proposed Wednesday set recommendations for how the U.S. government could respond to three levels of economic disruption caused by AI: one in which the national unemployment rate reaches 5%, 10% and an unspecified, 鈥渦nprecedented鈥� level. The , reported last week, was 4.3%.
In the 鈥渦nprecedented鈥� scenario, the company wrote that more permanent support will be necessary, and it listed several ways to generate and share revenue broadly, including basic income, sovereign wealth models and equity-sharing mechanisms. This would be 鈥渘ovel economic territory,鈥� the company wrote.
The company’s proposals also outlined several suggestions for mitigating safety and security risks. Anthropic is known for its emphasis on safety and building reliable, 鈥渟teerable鈥� AI systems, with Amodei and its co-founders splitting off from OpenAI to form the new company in 2021.
The proposals add that the government should be able to 鈥渂lock or deter鈥� the rollout of AI models that 鈥減ose a significant risk of catastrophic harms.鈥�
Amodei wrote that AI regulations should match the rigor of Federal Aviation Administration regulations in that AI models would be required to go through technical testing and auditing like airplanes. They wouldn鈥檛 be released if they didn鈥檛 meet high safety standards.
Last week, Trump signed an that established a framework for the government to vet the national security risks of the most advanced AI systems for up to a month before their public release.
Amodei added existing regulations for aircraft, automobiles and drugs should serve as models for regulating AI. They are all 鈥減owerful technologies essential to the modern economy,鈥� he wrote, 鈥渂ut capable of killing large numbers of people if designed or operated poorly.鈥�
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