The Anthropic Economic Index

AI use concentrated in computer/math roles: 37% of conversations.
- Arts/design 10%; physical labor (farming, forestry) only 0.1%.
36% of occupations use AI for ≥25% of tasks.
- Only 4% of jobs use AI across 75%+ of tasks.
Mid-to-high salary workers adopt heaviest; low and very-high wages least.
- Programmers and copywriters show strongest adoption curves.
57% of interactions are augmentation; 43% are automation.
- Augmentation: iteration 31%, learning 23%, validation 3%.
Built “Clio”: privacy-preserving tool mapping 1M conversations to O*NET.
Dataset published on Hugging Face; open for researcher extension.