Anthropic’s Chief Economist Breaks Down AI and the Future of the Economy

A JFK Jr. Forum conversation at Harvard’s Institute of Politics, moderated by former Council of Economic Advisers chair Jason Furman, on why AI’s rapidly rising capabilities have yet to show up in unemployment or productivity data. McCrory explains how his team builds the Anthropic Economic Index from privacy-preserving Claude usage data, why diffusion lags capability, and the open questions of inequality and human-capital formation as students learn with, or lean on, AI.