A team of economists has released the first version of an 'Economic Scenario Explorer,' a modeling tool designed to map out how transformative AI could reshape future economic outcomes. The tool accompanies a technical report and was refined based on feedback from prominent economists including Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Emi Nakamura, who flagged issues like AI's effect on capital returns and wage divergence between exposed and unexposed occupations.
anthropic.com
· 2026-09-09
A researcher describes developing an economic theory over several months with help from Anthropic's Opus and Fable AI models, which surfaced counterarguments and relevant papers during the process. The work has evolved into a formal paper co-authored with a researcher from the Stockholm School of Economics, building on the task-based automation framework of Nobel laureate Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo. The paper claims to combine classical economic scarcity models with technology-driven wage effects to explain how aggregate wages are set, a question the author says mainstream economics has not fully resolved.
wilsoniumite.com
· 2026-09-07
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