Anthropic releases an interactive tool that lets users explore how AI might affect US economic growth, jobs, wages, and more by 2030 (Scott Horsley/NPR)

Anthropic has released an interactive tool that helps organizations and policymakers explore how AI could affect U.S. economic growth, employment, wages, and other macro indicators by 2030. For CIOs and technology leaders, the key implication is that AI planning is increasingly a business-strategy issue, not just an IT initiative: leaders need to anticipate workforce redesign, productivity gains, and potential disruption to roles and operating models while aligning AI investments with measurable economic outcomes. IT organizations should use scenario planning like this to prioritize use cases, assess labor impacts, and build governance around where AI will create value versus where it may replace or reshape work.