Usage of generative AI revolves around software development and technical writing tasks and users typically see the technology as way to augment and enhance humans, according to Anthropic's inaugural Economic Index report.
Anthropic anonymized conversations on its Claude large language model (LLM) to highlight trends. High level findings of Anthropic's Economic Index include:
- About 36% of occupations use AI in at least a quarter of their tasks. About 4% of occupations use it for three quarters of tasks.
- 57% of AI use is augmentation relative to 43% focused on automation.
- Mid-to-high wage occupations such as computer programmers and data scientists are using AI for tasks. Lowest and highest paid roles use AI the least.
Perhaps the biggest takeaway from Anthropic's Economic Index is that the middle class of professions is facing the most augmentation. Computer and mathematics, art, design and media, life and physical social science, and education take up the most of Claude conversations.
The dataset on Hugging Face, which Anthropic open sourced, is worth a look.
