--- title: "Introducing the Anthropic Economic Index · AI Fault Line" url: https://aifaultline.com/research/p/title-f104611084576ae9/ description: "AI Fault Line is a neutral, evidence-cited field guide to why experts looking at the same developments disagree about AI's effect on productivity, jobs, inequality, regulation and the pace of change." --- [Research](https://aifaultline.com/research/) # Introducing the Anthropic Economic Index Anthropic (AI lab research) · 10 Feb 2025 [Read original source](https://www.anthropic.com/research/the-anthropic-economic-index) Open access Not peer reviewed Where this sits in the debate - [Will AI destroy more jobs than it creates?](https://aifaultline.com/debate/jobs/) Direction of the finding as read from the abstract by an AI model ([AI-written](https://aifaultline.com/about/)). ## Source excerpt The Index’s initial report provides first-of-its-kind data and analysis based on millions of anonymized conversations on Claude.ai , revealing the clearest picture yet of how AI is being incorporated into real-world tasks across the modern economy. We're also open sourcing the dataset used for this analysis, so researchers can build on and extend our findings. Developing policy responses to address the coming transformation in the labor market and its effects on employment and productivity will take a range of perspectives. To that end, we are also inviting economists, policy experts, and other researchers to provide input on the Index. Our new paper builds on a long line of research on the labor market impact of technologies, from the Spinning Jenny of the Industrial Revolution to the car-manufacturing robots of the present day. We focus on the ongoing impact of AI. We don’t survey people on their AI use, or attempt to forecast the future; instead, we have direct data on how AI is actually being used. Our research began with an important insight from the economics literature : sometimes it makes sense to focus on occupational tasks rather than occupations themselves . Jobs often share certain tasks and skills in common: for example, visual pattern recognition is a task performed by designers, photographers, security screeners, and radiologists. Certain tasks lend themselves better to being automated or augmented by a new technology than others. We’d therefore expect AI to be adopted selectively for different tasks across different occupations, and that analyzing tasks—in addition to jobs as a whole—would give us a fuller picture of how AI is being integrated into the economy. This research was made possible by Claude insights and observations, or " Clio ", an automated analysis tool that allows us to analyze conversations with Claude while preserving user privacy 1 . We used Clio on a dataset of approximately one million conversations with Claude (specifically, Fre ## About this publication **Lab or institute research, not peer reviewed.** A report or blog post published by an AI lab or research institute on its own site. It has not been through independent peer review, and the publisher may have a stake in the findings. Published 2025 (21 months ago) Citations Not recorded for this source Citation counts come from OpenAlex; none are recorded for this source — absence of a count is not absence of citations. [Chart: published 2025] □ added to this collection in 2026. ## More on this topic Related by theme, not necessarily by method or conclusion. - [The Effects of Generative AI on High Skilled Work: Evidence from Three Field Experiments with Software Developers](https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-2139-ssrn-4945566/) SSRN · 2024 - [GPTs are GPTs: An Early Look at the Labor Market Impact Potential of Large Language Models](https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-48550-arxiv-2303-10130/) arXiv · 2023 - [Experimental evidence on the productivity effects of generative artificial intelligence](https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-1126-science-adh2586/) Science · 2023 - [The simple macroeconomics of AI](https://aifaultline.com/research/p/doi-10-1093-epolic-eiae042/) Economic Policy · 2024 Overview assembled automatically from collected metadata. [How this site is built](https://aifaultline.com/about/).