Anthropic Report Finds Dire News About AI's Effects on Job Market

"In numbers, an overwhelming 77 percent of businesses using Anthropic's Claude AI software showed signs of automation, like "full task delegation," according to the released by the company this week. Only 12 percent of AI usage appeared to leverage the tech in an augmentation role, like learning or asking the bot for feedback. The report was based on data from Anthropic's application programming interface, or API, through which customers access the AI software."

"The findings are a stark reflection of businesses' intentions by using AI, and add to the mounting anxiety of how the tech could affect the economy. While many AI leaders have warned that AI will severely disrupt the job market, it's often balanced by the sunny promise that it will work alongside human workers to make their jobs easier. But if over three-quarters of the companies in the report are using AI for outright automation, it portents much darker implications."

"That said, the report only concerns Anthropic's Claude AI and may not necessarily be indicative of how other AI models, like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot, are being used. As one of the leaders in the industry, however, Anthropic's data provides a useful barometer. According to the report, the plurality of what businesses are using AI for is coding at 44 percent, with office and administrative tasks a distant second at 10 percent."

Data from Anthropic's Claude API indicates 77 percent of businesses using the model show signs of automation, including full task delegation, while only 12 percent use AI for augmentation such as learning or feedback. Business use skews toward coding (44 percent) and office/administrative tasks (10 percent). Individual users show about 50 percent automation. Requests delegating entire tasks rose from 27 percent to 39 percent. The dataset comes from an API and may not reflect usage patterns for other models like OpenAI's ChatGPT or Microsoft Copilot. The trends suggest increased autonomy and potential job-market disruption.

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