Today, we're publishing two new findings from inside Anthropic: how work and hiring are changing at a company at the frontier of AI adoption, and how Anthropic staff expect AI to change the economy.
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Peter McCrory
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Working at the frontier shapes expectations for the future
We’re sharing two reports: the first covers how AI is changing employment inside Anthropic, and the second looks at the gap between how the public and Anthropic employees expect AI to affect work and the economy.
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Peter McCrory
@PeterMcCrory
We find that the general public and Anthropic staff both expect AI capabilities to advance rapidly in the years ahead across increasingly complex knowledge work tasks.
But Anthropic staff expect faster, broader progress.
But Anthropic staff expect faster, broader progress.
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Peter McCrory
@PeterMcCrory
Expectations of progress and perceptions about broader economic effects are shaped by experience.
At Anthropic, AI agents have diffused rapidly across the company this year: By August, interactive AI agent hours outnumbered employees’ 6 to 1.
At Anthropic, AI agents have diffused rapidly across the company this year: By August, interactive AI agent hours outnumbered employees’ 6 to 1.
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Peter McCrory
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The proliferation of AI agents coincided with increased productivity across the company: More lines of code written, more sales per rep, and more legal contracts processed.
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Peter McCrory
@PeterMcCrory
At the same time, Anthropic has hired for a smaller share of junior technical positions while increasingly emphasizing autonomy and judgment, relative to technical domain expertise and implementation, in hiring decisions.
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Peter McCrory
@PeterMcCrory
We find evidence that Anthropic staff and the general public have similar views on how capabilities will shape broader economic outcomes: Those who expect AI to do comparably more of their own work anticipate similar unemployment effects.
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Peter McCrory
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Overall, there is a wide range of views on the future of AI progress and what such progress implies for the economy. This observation motivated us to develop a structured framework for comparing across different futures: anthropic.com/institute/econ…
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Scenarios for our Economic Future
The Anthropic Economics Team models the effects of AI on the economy of 2030.
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Peter McCrory
@PeterMcCrory
We’re publishing this research because Anthropic runs roughly a year and a half ahead of the economy on AI adoption, so what happens at Anthropic could be a leading indicator for the broader world.
And we hope that it gives policymakers, researchers, and workers lead time to prepare for the economic impacts of the future – and take steps now to make sure everyone benefits from AI.
And we hope that it gives policymakers, researchers, and workers lead time to prepare for the economic impacts of the future – and take steps now to make sure everyone benefits from AI.
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