Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic, delivered the Per Jacobsson Foundation lecture on Saturday (October 17, 2026) during the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok. The presentation argued that artificial intelligence is driving abrupt economic shifts.
According to Reuters, Clark cited Anthropic's Economic Scenario Explorer, where an extreme scenario projects US GDP to reach $44.4 trillion by 2030. Current GDP sits just above $30 trillion. Other modeled scenarios include a modest $34.1 trillion and a substantial $36.3 trillion.
Clark admitted the figures sound absurd, but scientific acceleration makes such outcomes possible. He advocated for international regulations, and later clarified in a post on X that this figure represents the public tool operating under extreme parameters.
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