# Marc Andreessen joins Federal Reserve AI Productivity Task Force with Anthropic economist

> The Federal Reserve is bringing Silicon Valley into its thinking about AI and the economy. Announced July 9 by Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, a new AI Productivity Task Force will be co-led by a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen, Stanford economist Charles I. Jones, who is currently on leave at Anthropic, and Xbox chief Asha Sharma. It is one of five external task forces set up to inform policy, with the work due by the end of 2026. The interesting wrinkle is who is in the room. Having a prominent AI investor and an economist embedded at a major AI lab help shape the Fed's read on how AI affects jobs and productivity raises obvious questions about perspective and influence over monetary and labor policy. It also signals that the central bank now sees AI as a first-order macroeconomic force worth studying directly rather than waiting for the data to arrive.

_Section: [Daily AI Updates](https://www.wortins.com/daily-ai) · Source: CNBC · Published Friday, July 17, 2026_

## Wortins' read

The Federal Reserve is bringing Silicon Valley into its thinking about AI and the economy. Announced July 9 by Fed Chair Kevin Warsh, a new AI Productivity Task Force will be co-led by a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen, Stanford economist Charles I. Jones, who is currently on leave at Anthropic, and Xbox chief Asha Sharma. It is one of five external task forces set up to inform policy, with the work due by the end of 2026. The interesting wrinkle is who is in the room. Having a prominent AI investor and an economist embedded at a major AI lab help shape the Fed's read on how AI affects jobs and productivity raises obvious questions about perspective and influence over monetary and labor policy. It also signals that the central bank now sees AI as a first-order macroeconomic force worth studying directly rather than waiting for the data to arrive.

## Source

[Read the full story at CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/09/fed-task-force-member-chairman-kevin-warsh-ai.html)

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