Summary: Anthropic has launched the Anthropic Economic Index to study how AI is impacting labor markets. Their initial report reveals that about 36% of jobs use AI for at least a quarter of tasks, mostly in mid-to-high wage occupations. The research shows that AI is enhancing human work rather than fully automating jobs, with specific tasks being more likely to adopt AI.
very few occupations see AI use across most of their associated tasks: only approximately 4% of jobs used AI for at least 75% of tasks. However, more moderate use of AI is much more widespread: roughly 36% of jobs had some use of AI for at least 25% of their tasks. (View Highlight)
Interestingly, both low-paying and very-high-paying jobs had very low rates of AI use (these were generally jobs involving a large degree of manual dexterity, (View Highlight)