How AI agents could destroy the economy

Published on February 23, 2026
Citrini Research imagines a report from two years in the future, in which unemployment has doubled and the total value of the stock market has fallen by more than a third.
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Defense Secretary summons Anthropic’s Amodei over military use of Claude

February 23, 2026
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has summoned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei to the Pentagon for a tense discussion over the military's use of Claude. Hegseth has threatened to designate Anthropic a "supply chain risk."

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