Anthropic’s Clark says AI’s impact accelerating quickly and could vastly boost US GDP

BANGKOK, Oct 17 (Reuters) Rapidly improving artificial intelligence capabilities will bring far faster ​change across all fields, Anthropic ‌co-founder Jack Clark said on Saturday, with one of the company s internal economic models forecasting that ‌it ​could vastly expand ⁠US economic output ⁠to $44 trillion by 2030. Clark, speaking at IMF and World Bank annual meetings in Bangkok, ​said that international cooperation was needed to erect unusual and ⁠serious rules ⁠for the transformative technology. Clark ​said that the $44 trillion number, which ​compares to the current level ‌of just over $30 trillion, sounds very outlandish but AI is vastly increasing scientific discovery. 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. (Reporting by David Lawder; Editing by ​John Mair