Anthropic has a front row seat to AI economic change. From American Public Media,

this is Marketplace Tech. I'm Megan McCarty Carrino.

Economists usually have to wait for years of data to figure out how a new technology is affecting the economy.

But Anthropic, the AI company behind Claude, is kind of watching in real time.

Using anonymized data, the company's been tracking who is using its AI tools, how people are

using them, and even when people turn to Claude for certain tasks. They break it all down in a

quarterly economic index report, and the new one just came out. Anthropics' head of economics,

Peter McCrory, says the way users interact with Claude has

changed a lot over the last year, from mostly chatting to increasingly running autonomous

agentic workflows.

He joined us to break down some of the trends he's seeing in the data.

So if you look at how people were using Claude a year and a half ago, we saw that

for about a third of all jobs in the U.S. economy, a quarter of the tasks that people would do in

those jobs were the sorts of things that Claude was already beginning to do a year and a half ago.

Since that time, that number has risen from about a third of all jobs

to half of all jobs. So this is one indication of how the capabilities improving and patterns

of adoption showcase Claude becoming much more evident throughout different pockets of the economy.

Another way that you can see this is that the average cost in

terms of associated wage of the occupation of the task that Claude is doing has actually declined

since we first started tracking this a year and a half ago. What this means is that people are

using Claude not just for very technical

tasks, but using Claude to help you decide what to watch in the evening, using it for

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