Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark says rapidly advancing artificial intelligence could dramatically transform the US economy, with an internal company model projecting US economic output could reach $44 trillion by 2030.
Speaking at the IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok, Clark said the forecast may sound “very outlandish,” but argued that increasingly powerful AI could accelerate scientific discovery, create new industries and drive unprecedented economic expansion.
Clark also called for international cooperation and “unusual and serious rules” to manage the transformative impact o...
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Jack Clark, cofounder of Anthropic, argued that the technological singularity has begun, citing evidence from AI systems like Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra achieving high scores on scientific benchmarks, including 67.7% on Humanity's Last Exam and 98% on TheophysEval, where the AI corrected human experts' errors. He claimed AI is now capable of frontier science, leading to a potential economic transformation where US GDP could reach $44 trillion by 2030. Clark urged governments to build infrastructure beyond data centers, including scientific equipment and robotics, to avoid capacity bottlenecks. He emphasized the need for human oversight in biological research and AI-driven development, and called for global cooperation to establish rules and exercise restraint, warning that the pace of change demands decisions within a decade.
Key takeaways
AI systems have reached frontier science capability, with Claude Opus 5.5 scoring 67.7% on Humanity's Last Exam and 98% on TheophysEval, correcting human expert errors.
US GDP could reach $44 trillion by 2030 under singularity-esque conditions, according to Anthropic's economic modeling.
Anthropic researchers now produce almost 10 times the code they did in the company's first four years, tracking AI capability advances.
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Potential US GDP by 2030 under singularity conditions
Clark, J. (2026, October 17). FULL SPEECH: Anthropic Co-Founder Jack Clark Says AI Could Push US GDP to $44 Trillion by 2030 |AF14 [Interview transcript]. DWS News. CEOInterviews.AI. https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3079261/
MLA
Jack Clark. "FULL SPEECH: Anthropic Co-Founder Jack Clark Says AI Could Push US GDP to $44 Trillion by 2030 |AF14." DWS News, 17 Oct. 2026. Transcript, CEOInterviews.AI, https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3079261/.
BibTeX
@misc{clark2026_3079261,
author = {Jack Clark},
title = {FULL SPEECH: Anthropic Co-Founder Jack Clark Says AI Could Push US GDP to $44 Trillion by 2030 |AF14},
howpublished = {Interview transcript, DWS News. CEOInterviews.AI},
year = {2026},
month = {oct},
url = {https://ceointerviews.ai/interview/3079261/},
note = {Speaker-attributed transcript with timestamps}
}
