Peter McCrory

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628 appearances 3 recordings 3 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 19 Jun

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Odd Lots · Anthropic's Co-Founder and Top Economist on Doing Research at the AI Frontier · 19 Jun 2026 podcast

So, I mean, I was late to the game in joining Anthropic.

I joined just a year ago, but I had... A year ago, people... Well, whatever.

I think what was very evident, so I'm an applied macro economist by training and have tried to understand various types of shocks throughout the economy.

Part of what drew me to Anthropic was it was evident to me last year that they cared very deeply about not just advancing the technology, but making sense of how it is set to reshape the labor market.

its impact on productivity, on growth, and be willing to put evidence, data, and research out into the world that would be broadly beneficial and useful to society.

And I thought, I want to be a part of building that economic research program and do what I can to provide tentative answers to the most pressing questions.

We might not always get it right, but ideally we're helping society make sense of the change.

Hmm.

This is a great question and one that I've been wrestling with.

I think there are a number of reasons why you might think that the impact has not yet materialized.

One, the technology can advance, but it also then needs to diffuse throughout the economy.

And there can be bottlenecks.

from moving from capabilities to actual deployment.

We see that with our enterprise customers.

So if you wanna automate biological research or some other very complicated financial modeling task, you need a lot of contextual information available to the model.

If you don't have that contextual information, the capabilities alone won't necessarily drive the impact.

It also takes time for people to just start using the tools.

And so we're still in the somewhat of the early stages there.

Two places that I would be looking to see an impact, one is in terms of productivity growth.

We've done some research that points in the direction that this should be large and consequential.

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