Saturday, 17 October, 2026
A $44 Trillion Economy? Anthropic Co-Founder Foresees Massive AI-Driven GDP Boom
By TechShots Studio
Speaking at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings, Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark stated that rapidly accelerating AI capabilities could vastly boost U.S. GDP to $44 trillion by 2030. While acknowledging the forecast "sounds outlandish," Clark emphasized that AI is dramatically speeding up scientific discovery, creating new industries, and requiring urgent global cooperation to establish serious regulatory guardrails.
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