Transformative AI Research Economist, Economic Research

Job summary

Responsibilities

As a Transformative AI Research Economist at Anthropic, you will build macroeconomic models of AI that could be genuinely transformative and develop the scenario-based forecasting tools that let us reason quantitatively about economic trajectories with no historical precedent.

• Build macroeconomic models of transformative AI spanning growth, labor markets, and income distribution
• Develop and maintain scenario-based forecasting tools; publish forecasts for GDP, productivity, and unemployment under a range of AI-capability trajectories
• Ground macroeconomic projections in microeconomic data from the Anthropic Economic Index, constraining theory with observed patterns of adoption and task transformation
• Analyze questions of income distribution and economic governance under transformative-AI scenarios
• Contribute to the development of AI-powered research tools for economics

What they're looking for

• PhD in Economics, or an exceptional candidate close to completion
• Background in macroeconomics, growth theory, or public finance ideally with exposure to task-based frameworks and labor economics
• A research record that engages seriously with the possibility of transformative AI — you treat the scenarios in this posting as live questions worth modeling rigorously, not…
• Relevant experience in some of:
• Macroeconomic modeling and structural estimation

Tech stack

• Python