The opportunity
As a Regional Research Economist at Anthropic, you will collaborate with governments, academia, industry, and civil society in your region to measure and understand AI’s effects on the economy and explore research-driven policy interventions. You will contribute to the…
What you'll do
Build and maintain relationships with academic institutions, policy think: tanks, and other research partners as the primary point of contact for these organizations on economic impact work in your region
Advance research collaborations that answer country: or regional-specific economic impact questions
Translate research insights into actionable recommendations for policy discussions
Make fundamental contributions to the development and expansion of the: Anthropic Economic Index , including country- and regional-specific analysis
Design and collaborate on empirical research on AI’s economic effects with: governments, academia, industry, and civil society in your region
Develop new methodological approaches, in collaboration with partners in your: region, for studying AI’s impact on labor markets and the future of work; productivity and task transformation; economic inequality and displacement; industry-specific disruption and adaptation; and aggregate economic trajectories (GDP, productivity, unemployment) under varying AI-adoption scenarios
What they're looking for
- Experience relevant to the study of AI’s impact on the economy, such as labor: market analysis and occupational change; task-based approaches to technological transformation; large-scale data analysis and econometric methods; large language models for social science research; policy-relevant economic research; experimental and quasi-experimental methods for causal inference; macroeconomic modeling and time series forecasting; or agent-based modeling and large-scale simulation
- Experience working with novel datasets and measurement systems
- Comfort learning new technical tools and frameworks
- Strong interest in ensuring AI development benefits humanity
- Comfort working with AI systems and ability to think critically about their capabilities and limitations