Anthropic built a model of what A.I. does to the American paycheck. You can push the sliders.

Anthropic, the lab behind Claude, released an interactive model on Wednesday that lets a reader test how artificial intelligence might nibble at the U.S. economy — or upend it — over the next few years. NPR timed the tool to this morning. In one slider, A.I. is a small technology and the economy stays on a normal path. At the other extreme, GDP soars and nearly 14 percent of workers lose their jobs to the machines, with fewer than half finding new ones. The Science desk files a slider where a white paper used to be. Assumptions, on a screen. Paychecks, off it.

American information-sector unemployment is already 3.8 percent. Help desks are being rewritten as agents. Warsaw marched 30 robots to a ministry on Monday and asked for a law. The model does not settle the argument. It lets a household see the range. Nibble is a consulting word. A $4.22 gallon is not. The same morning, Brent is $100 because tankers are on fire. The machines and the strait are not separate stories. They are two ways a wage gets thinner.