Anthropic Launches Economic Index: First Large-Scale Empirical Study of AI's Labor Market Impact
Anthropic has released the Anthropic Economic Index, an initiative tracking AI's effects on labor markets using anonymized data from approximately one million Claude.ai conversations matched to U.S. Department of Labor O*NET occupational tasks. Key findings show AI use is concentrated in software development and technical writing, with 36% of occupations seeing AI use in at least 25% of their tasks, and usage skewing toward augmentation (57%) over automation (43%). The underlying dataset is being open-sourced to enable independent research, and Anthropic is inviting economists and policy experts to contribute to the ongoing initiative. The analysis was enabled by Clio, Anthropic's privacy-preserving internal conversation analysis tool.
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Anthropic Launches Economic Futures Program for AI Labor Market Research
Anthropic has announced the Economic Futures Program, a structured initiative to fund and coordinate research on AI's economic and labor market impacts. The program operates through three pillars: research grants (up to $50,000 per award), evidence-based policy symposia in Washington DC and London, and expansion of the Anthropic Economic Index into longitudinal datasets. It extends Anthropic's existing Economic Index work by adding grant funding, policy forums, and institutional partnerships to translate data into actionable policy proposals.
Anthropic Economic Index: Second Report on Claude 3.7 Sonnet Usage Patterns and Labor Market Effects
Anthropic has released its second Anthropic Economic Index report, analyzing 1 million anonymized Claude.ai conversations following the launch of Claude 3.7 Sonnet. Key findings include a rise in coding, education, science, and healthcare usage shares; extended thinking mode is predominantly used for technical tasks (computer science researchers ~10%, software developers ~8%); and augmentation still comprises 57% of usage versus automation. The report also introduces a novel bottom-up taxonomy of 630 granular usage categories and releases task-level datasets publicly on Hugging Face.
Anthropic forms Economic Advisory Council to guide AI labor market research
Anthropic announced the formation of an Economic Advisory Council comprising ten distinguished economists from institutions including MIT, University of Chicago, Harvard, LSE, and Yale. The council will advise on AI's impact on labor markets, economic growth, and socioeconomic systems, informing the research agenda for Anthropic's Economic Index initiative. The move signals Anthropic's intent to build credible, policy-relevant research infrastructure around AI's economic effects, targeting policymakers and business leaders as an audience.
Anthropic partners with University of Chicago's Becker Friedman Institute on AI economic research
Anthropic announced a partnership with the University of Chicago's Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI) to study AI's impact on labor markets and the broader economy. BFI faculty will receive Claude for Enterprise access, training sessions, and virtual workshops as part of the collaboration. The partnership extends Anthropic's Economic Index initiative, aiming to combine Anthropic's usage data with BFI's economic expertise to produce more rigorous analysis of AI's distributional, productivity, and labor market effects for policymakers.
Anthropic Launches Economic Futures Programme in UK and Europe
Anthropic is expanding its Economic Futures Programme to the UK and Europe, beginning with a symposium at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The programme offers research grants, API credits, and evidence-based policy forums for UK and EU researchers studying AI's effects on labor markets and productivity. Anthropic is also expanding the Anthropic Economic Index to provide more granular, Europe-specific data on AI adoption patterns across industries and regions. Country-level usage data reveals distinct adoption patterns: academic research in the UK, manufacturing support in Germany, and culture/tourism in France.
Anthropic Growing 10x/Year While Competitors Cut Workforce
A Latent Space newsletter item highlights a notable divergence in the AI industry: Anthropic is reportedly growing at roughly 10x per year while other AI/tech companies are conducting layoffs exceeding 10% of their workforces. The piece frames this as a significant economic dichotomy within the AI sector. The body is brief and reflective, offering limited technical detail.
Anthropic publishes large-scale study of how university students use Claude
Anthropic analyzed one million anonymized student conversations on Claude.ai to produce one of the first large-scale empirical studies of real-world AI usage in higher education. Key findings: Computer Science students are heavily overrepresented (36.8% of conversations vs. 5.4% of U.S. degrees), while Business, Health, and Humanities students underuse the tool relative to enrollment. Students primarily engage in higher-order cognitive tasks per Bloom's Taxonomy—creating and analyzing—though the study raises concerns about offloading critical thinking. The analysis used Anthropic's internal Clio tool, which aggregates conversation patterns while stripping personal information.
Anthropic Public Record: First wave survey of 52,000 Americans on AI attitudes
Anthropic released results from its first Anthropic Public Record survey, a nationally representative poll of nearly 52,000 Americans conducted in November–December 2025. Key findings: 64% fear AI-induced job loss (top fear in every state), 56% fear cognitive dependency, over 70% support government regulation of AI, and only 15% trust AI companies to self-govern. The survey found broad bipartisan consensus on AI concerns and accountability, with Americans prioritizing legal liability for AI companies and safety over growth. Anthropic plans to repeat the survey regularly and expand internationally.