Anthropic just committed $350 million to figuring out what AI is actually doing to the economy before the rest of us find out the hard way.
The company announced three new initiatives on June 10, headlined by a $200 million Economic Futures Research Fund and a $150 million national fellowship program for early-career professionals.
What Anthropic is actually funding
The $200 million Economic Futures Research Fund is designed to support empirical research, policy trials, and evaluations focused specifically on how AI reshapes labor markets and economic transitions.
This isn’t Anthropic’s first foray into this territory. The company launched an Economic Futures Program in 2025, and the new fund represents a significant scaling of that effort.
