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AI Capability Is Expanding Faster Than Delegation Rules

HRR-2026-001 · occupation-to-task economic modeling · HOLD · H3_AUTHORIZING

Observation

OBSERVED TASK

occupation-to-task economic modeling

Source: Anthropic Institute. Scenarios for our Economic Future

HOLD · H3_AUTHORIZING · Observed + Inference

The classification itself is SHIRO & Co. observational interpretation. It is not an objective scientific fact.

FACT事実

OBSERVED FACT

  • Anthropic Institute published Scenarios for our Economic Future, based on the technical report Economic Scenarios for Transformative AI (Korinek et al., 2026).
  • The model represents jobs as bundles of tasks. AI can leave a task unchanged, augment it, automate it, or lead to new tasks.
  • The published account states that AI capability does not necessarily eliminate an occupation; the internal composition of work changes.
  • The explorer estimates economic futures from expected AI capability, adoption, autonomy, productivity, and labor-market adjustment.
  • The authors state that the model omits policy responses, among other forces, and that the future is not predetermined.

INTERPRETATION解釈

SHIRO & Co. INTERPRETATION

The model primarily estimates what AI may be capable of performing and how firms and workers may adapt economically. It does not fully model the institutional question: which AI-capable tasks should remain under meaningful human authority? This creates a second-order problem. As AI capability expands, societies will need explicit delegation rules determining which tasks may be automated, which require supervision, and which remain reserved for human authority.

Uncertainty

UNCERTAINTY

  • The scenario explorer is Version 1.0 and is described by its authors as a simplification.
  • Omitted forces include policy responses, business cycles, aggregate demand or financial disruptions, and catastrophic risks.
  • This observation does not treat any scenario as a forecast of what will occur.

Signal

The next labor-market variable may not be automation rate, but delegation rate.

Human Reserve implication

Economic models can estimate how much work AI can perform. Institutions will still have to decide how much work AI should be allowed to perform.

Domain
Labor / Economic Systems / AI Governance
Observed capability
Occupations are modeled as bundles of tasks that may remain unchanged, be augmented by AI, become automated, or be newly created.
Delegation state
HOLD
Human presence
H3 — AUTHORIZING
Confidence
Observed + Inference

Classification applies to the institutional gap in the published scenario model, not to Anthropic as a firm.

Delegation boundary

The scenario model estimates how tasks may be augmented or automated. It does not specify which AI-capable tasks may be delegated.

Authority boundary

Economic adaptation by firms and workers is modeled. Final institutional authority over delegation is not assigned.

Accountability boundary

The published model omits policy responses. Answerability for delegated AI-capable work remains outside the scenario frame.

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