AI Scenario Explorer

Korinek, Jones, Sacher, Cotter and McCrory run their transformative-AI model at three settings, modest, substantial and extreme. But the model takes seven inputs, and the three scenarios move all seven in lockstep. Set them independently here: every one of the 4374 combinations is precomputed, so the 2030 outcomes appear as you click.

Two things to hold onto. Every figure is a gap against the same US economy without AI, which grows at 2 percent a year: "+8.3 percent" means 8.3 percent above that path, not a forecast. And the model splits the workforce in two: the AI-sensitive occupations, whose tasks AI is assumed to touch, and all other occupations.

the substantial scenario

The seven inputs

Outcomes in 2030

GDP, percent above the no-AI path
this setting modest / substantial / extreme
Unemployment rate, AI-sensitive occupations
this setting modest / substantial / extreme
AI-sensitive wage, percent above the no-AI path
this setting modest / substantial / extreme
Show the numbers as a table
The three right-hand columns are this grid's corners at the paper's three scenario settings, so they do not move as you click. They match the paper's Table 3 to the printed digit except in three cells: the substantial average wage (2.2 here, 2.1 in the paper), substantial all-workers unemployment (4.5 against 4.6) and extreme GDP growth (15.7 against 15.4); the note at the foot of the page explains why.
Outcome in 2030This settingModestSubstantialExtreme