Launching the Anthropic Economic Futures Programme in the UK and Europe (www.anthropic.com)

Anthropic is expanding its Economic Futures Programme to the UK and Europe, kicking off with an LSE symposium that will convene 100+ experts from government, academia, and civil society. The program mirrors its US launch by offering research grants and Claude API/credit support to European researchers, commissioning policy forums, and widening the Anthropic Economic Index to deliver more granular, region- and industry-level data on real-world AI use. Selected researchers will present evidence-based policy proposals to help governments manage AI’s labor-market and productivity effects. This matters because Anthropic’s index already shows rapid, sector-specific adoption across Europe—Claude is widely used for coding overall; in the UK it’s most often applied to academic research and education; Germany shows high per-capita use in manufacturing tasks like calibration and repair; and France uses Claude heavily for culture and tourism information. By pairing grants, dataset releases, and policy convenings, Anthropic aims to inform measurable interventions on workforce transitions, productivity measurement, and regulatory design. For AI/ML researchers and practitioners, the program offers data access, funding, and policy engagement opportunities to study deployment impacts and build tools that shape responsible, evidence-driven adoption across industries.