Worried about AI taking your job? New Anthropic research shows it’s not that simple
Fortune • • business
Key Points:
- New research from Anthropic reveals that AI’s impact on jobs is complex, with AI enhancing productivity for highly skilled professionals like radiologists and therapists, while potentially deskilling roles such as data entry workers and travel agents.
- Anthropic’s Economic Index shows that AI adoption is spreading rapidly across the US, with 44% of jobs now able to use AI for at least a quarter of their tasks, up from 36% previously, and AI tools like Claude increasingly capable of taking on more sophisticated delegated tasks.
- Human collaboration and oversight remain critical for complex work, suggesting AI is more likely to augment rather than replace many professional roles, with managerial and delegation skills becoming increasingly important.
- Anthropic plans to open source its data to help economists and
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