Anthropic’s Jack Clark says AI could push US GDP to about $44 trillion by 2030

The Anthropic co-founder presented the company's economic scenarios at the IMF and World Bank meetings in Bangkok, with the top number tied to an extreme AI outcome Jack Clark, co-founder of Anthropic , told a room full of finance ministers and central bankers that AI could push US GDP to about $44 trillion by 2030. For context, the US economy today sits at just over $30 trillion. He made the case on October 17, 2026, at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok. He paired the forecast with a call for international regulatory cooperation. The projection comes from Anthropic’s internal economic model. The company released it in September 2026 as an economic scenarios explorer. The extreme case assumes AI reaches high levels of autonomy and efficiency.

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