Anthropic’s Jack Clark says AI could push US GDP to about $44 trillion by 2030

Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark has said that AI could lift US GDP to roughly $44 trillion by 2030, a projection framed as a long-run growth scenario rather than a near-term forecast. The transmission channel for traders is growth expectations feeding into long-term real rate and term premium pricing: if productivity gains are credibly expected to expand the economy's potential output, markets may price a higher neutral rate, which tends to support the dollar relative to peers through rate differentials. USD and long-duration Treasuries are the most directly exposed, while equity sectors tied to AI infrastructure and semiconductors would likely see the sharpest sentiment-driven repricing. Because the figure is an aspirational estimate from a company executive rather than an official forecast, its market impact will depend on whether it is validated by upcoming data, so traders should watch the next Bureau of Economic Analysis quarterly GDP release and any revisions to Congressional Budget Office potential growth estimates.

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