This work wouldn’t have been possible without my fantastic coauthors Ruth Appel*, Peter McCrory*, Michael Stern, Miles McCain, Tyler Neylon, and and the enormously talented team behind the project. Stay tuned for more!

See the report and interactive website for much more, including a job explorer where you can see what fraction of tasks in each job people are using AI for.

www.anthropic.com/economic-ind...

Finally, in “power laws rule everything around me,” it turns out that usage across different use cases is, of course, distributed in the same way.

Unsurprisingly, we see much more automation on the API, reflecting how the API tends to use be used more programmatically rather than through an interactive interfaces.

We also release first-of-its-kind insights on how people are using the Anthropic 1P API, using our privacy-preserving analysis system.

Use cases range from interior design to analyzing financial reports to helping with freight logistics.

We also see a surprising correlation between usage and interaction style. People in higher-use countries tend to use Claude more collaboratively rather than simply delegating to it.

We’re not sure why this is, and would be interested to see more research on here.

Second, AI use is dramatically uneven across the world. We see a strong correlation of usage per capita with GDP per capita, raising the prospect of a new Great Divergence.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_D...

First, users are delegating more tasks to Claude.

This could reflect both increased user trust in AI and model improvements.

We see more activity associated with code creation and less with debugging, which might mean users can accomplish their goals more in a single shot.

The Anthropic Economic Index now covers geographic and 1P API data.

We’re releasing new research, open source datasets, and an interactive website to explore AI usage across the world.

While those links have all the details, I wanted to call out two additional points:

First, I’m excited that our methods give insight into *how* work is done with AI

There’s a lot of interest in *what* tasks AI will do, but *how* AI changes the nature of work is also crucial.

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How is AI being used across the economy?

We have some new research and datasets to share:

Paper: assets.anthropic.com/m/2e23255f1e...

Data: huggingface.co/datasets/Ant...

Blogpost: anthropic.com/news/the-ant...

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And some insights into how Claude use varies across different languages

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For example, here are the most common use cases on Claude.ai…

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How are AI Assistants being used in the real world?

Our new research shows how to answer this question in a privacy preserving way, automatically identifying trends in Claude usage across the world.

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Some really cool interpretability work on protein language models!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...