Anthropic's Clark says AI's impact accelerating quickly and could vastly boost US GDP

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark told the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok on Saturday that AI is advancing fast enough to reshape every field. Business Recorder reported that one of the company's internal economic models projects US economic output could reach $44 trillion by 2030, up from just over $30 trillion today. Clark acknowledged the figure sounds extreme, but argued that the pace of improvement in the technology supports it.

Clark urged international cooperation to set what he called unusual and serious rules for the technology. He also said AI is greatly speeding up scientific discovery, and he linked the forecast to the technology's ongoing improvement. Clark added that growth of that size would depend on new industries and inventions emerging to drive it.