“Well like anyone who has a white collar job these days I'm 100% concerned, pretty much 24/7 concerned about losing my job eventually to A.I.”—Software engineer.1 One fifth of the respondents in our survey voiced concern about economic displacement. Some worried about this in the abstract: one software developer cautioned about “the possibility of AI in its current state being used to replace junior positions.” Others lamented that their jobs, or aspects of their jobs, were being automated away. One market researcher said, “In terms of improving my capability, it's no doubt. [B]ut in the futur
What 81,000 people told us about the economics of AIThis report introduces new metrics of AI usage to provide a rich portrait of interactions with Claude in November 2025, just prior to the release of Opus 4.5. These “primitives”—simple, foundational measures of how Claude is used, which we generate by asking Claude specific questions about anonymized Claude.ai and first-party (1P) API transcripts—cover five dimensions relevant to AI’s economic impact: user and AI skills, how complex tasks are, the degree of autonomy afforded to Claude, how successful Claude is, and whether Claude is used for personal, educational, or work purposes. The results
Anthropic Economic Index report: Economic primitivesUsing Claude to assess the survey responses, we rated the extent of people’s self-reported productivity gains from AI on a 1–7 scale, where 1 is “less productive,” 2 is “no change,” and each subsequent level denotes a larger gain. Responses that scored 7 included testimonials like, “It used to take months to make the website I [made] in 4-5 days”; Claude gave a 5 to statements like, “What might have taken four hours was accomplished in half the time,” and a 2 to ones like, “Personally, I had AI help me fix code on a website. But it took multiple passes to get the result I was after.”3 Overall,
What 81,000 people told us about the economics of AI… A job's exposure is higher if: Its tasks are theoretically possible with AI Its tasks see significant usage in the Anthropic Economic Index 5 Its tasks are performed in work-related contexts It has a relatively higher share of automated use patterns or API implementation Its AI-impacted tasks make … …
… People are most likely to talk about benefits flowing to themselves rather than to employers or AI companies. High-wage workers were the most enthusiastic about the productivity impacts of AI, but people with low-wage jobs and lower levels of education also reported large productivity gains. …
… Broad labor market impacts AI and jobs: How will AI change jobs and employment in different parts of the economy? What new tasks and jobs could emerge as AI automates existing parts of the economy? …
… It has an interdisciplinary staff of machine learning engineers, economists, and social scientists, bringing together and expanding three of Anthropic’s research teams: the Frontier Red Team , which stress-tests AI systems to understand the outermost limits of their current capabilities; Societal I… …
… Knowing the success rate of tasks gives a more accurate picture of which tasks might be automated, how impacted certain jobs might be, and how labor productivity will change. …
… In the US, our partnership will span three areas: developing portable records of a person’s skills and certifications to carry across schools and jobs; providing trustworthy career guidance for new entrants in the job market and those who are retraining; and creating tools that link data from train… …
… As we note in our report on labor market impacts , we expect that this migration from Claude.ai to the API may signal more imminent transformation of work for the associated jobs. …
… While AI is poised to have large effects, there is substantial uncertainty about how AI will affect jobs, productivity, and unemployment and on what timeline . …
… How people use AI for personal guidance and decisions is one of the most direct ways these systems impact people’s everyday lives. …
… The details of this scenario remain uncertain; for example we don’t know if AI middle managers would actually replace many existing jobs or instead spawn a new category of businesses. …