Anthropic co-founder: AI could lift US GDP to $44 trillion by 2030

The striking part isn't the headline number but the source and venue: a frontier-lab co-founder floating a near-50% output expansion at the IMF/World Bank meetings, where such figures carry weight with policymakers rather than traders. It matters most for macro and policy audiences now weighing AI's growth case against governance, since Clark pairs the projection with a call for strict international rules. The forecast is explicitly conditional on continued technological progress, so whether that condition holds — and whether coordination on rules materializes — is the open question worth watching.