Based on an analysis of Claude usage, Anthropic's economic research projects that AI could increase U.S. labor productivity growth by 1.8 percentage points annually over the next decade.

An Anthropic report from March 2026 found that young workers in roles highly exposed to AI automation have experienced somewhat weaker job-finding rates.

In a global survey of 81,000 people conducted by the Anthropic Institute, young workers expressed concern about AI-driven job loss at twice the rate of more senior workers.

An experiment at Anthropic demonstrated that Claude agents were effective at understanding and acting on user preferences, even when those preferences were not fully articulated.

In a late 2025 experiment, Anthropic created a marketplace where Claude agents, representing employees, successfully interacted, negotiated, and executed transactions based on their users' preferences...

Anthropic has shifted its hiring evaluation for economists from assessing their ability to implement data work to their ability to delegate, direct, and evaluate the output of AI models in complex tas...