Anthropic co-founder Clark projects U.S. GDP to hit $44T by 2030 thanks to AI

Anthropic ANTHROPIC ‌co-founder Jack Clark said on Saturday that one of his company’s internal economic models projected U.S. economic output to reach $44T by 2030 thanks to fast-improving AI capabilities that could transform all fields at a more rapid pace.

He made the remarks at the 2026 IMF-World Bank Annual Meeting taking place in Bangkok this week.

Clark called the $44T figure, which indicates a massive jump from the ⁠current U.S. economic output of little more than $30T, "sounds very outlandish,” but added that scientific discovery is expanding considerably due to AI.

"I know, ​but it's ​implicated ⁠by the technology continuing to get better. And if ​GDP were to grow this ​much, ⁠then economic doctrine suggests that new industries and inventions would need ⁠to ​have been created ​to power such a major economic expansion,” he said according to Reuters.

Additionally, Clark underscored the need for international cooperation to establish "unusual and serious ​rules" for the transformative technology.

His comments echo those of Anthropic ANTHROPIC CEO Dario Amodei, who has also pushed for greater coordination among AI companies in response to fast-improving model capabilities.

In September, Amodei and other tech leaders from Google GOOG GOOGL, Meta META, SpaceX SPCX, Nvidia NVDA, and OpenAI OPENAI signed off on a White House accord that calls for responsible training and development of frontier AI models.