The opportunity
As an Economist at Anthropic, you will work to measure and understand AI's effects on the global economy. You will make fundamental contributions to the development of the Anthropic Economic Index, establishing new methodologies to measure the usage, diffusion, and impact of AI…
What you'll do
Make fundamental contributions to the development and expansion of the: Anthropic Economic Index , including quarterly reports and industry-specific deep dives
Design and conduct empirical research on AI's economic effects, drawing on: external data sources and the privacy-preserving measurement systems internally
Develop new methodological approaches for studying AI's impact on:
Labor markets and the future of work
Productivity and task transformation
Economic inequality and displacement
What they're looking for
- Industry-specific disruption and adaptation
- Aggregate economic trajectories (GDP, productivity, unemployment) under varying AI-adoption scenarios
- Develop causal-inference tooling: e.g. surrogate indexes, heterogeneous-effect pipelines — to help Anthropic evaluate the downstream economic consequences of its own compute, product, and pricing decisions
- Build and maintain relationships with academic institutions, policy think tanks, and other research partners
