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Anthropic’s latest research suggests that although AI is rapidly changing the way work is done, it has not measurably eliminated jobs. At least, not yet. But beneath what Peter McCrory, head of economics at Anthropic, says is that the labor market “remains healthy,” early signs point to mixed impacts, especially for younger workers just entering the labor market.
In an interview on the sidelines of the Axios AI Summit in Washington, McCrory said the company’s latest report on the company’s economic impact finds little evidence of widespread job displacement so far.
“There is no significant difference in unemployment rates” between workers who use Cloud for “the task most central to their jobs in automated ways” — such as technical writers, data entry clerks, and software engineers — and workers in jobs less exposed to AI that require “physical interaction and dexterity with the real world.”
But as AI adoption spreads across industries, this situation may change quickly. If Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is to be believed, AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white collar jobs and push unemployment as high as 20% within the next five years.
“Displacement impacts can materialize very quickly, so you need to create a monitoring framework to understand this before it materializes so we can detect it as it happens and ideally determine the appropriate policy response,” McCrory told TechCrunch.
Staying ahead of these trends is why tracking the growth, adoption and deployment of AI is important, he said.
In theory, McCrory said, AI models like Claude can do almost anything a computer can do. In practice, most users are only scratching the surface of these capabilities.
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Anthropic looked at roles that included tasks that AI was particularly good at, that were already automated, and were linked to real use cases in the workplace — areas that were most likely to indicate where displacement could emerge, he said.
Anthropic’s fifth economic impact report, released Tuesday, also found that even in places where there has not been much displacement yet, there is a growing skills gap between early adopters and new arrivals.
Early adopters are likely to get much more value from the model, using it for business-related tasks rather than for informal or one-off purposes and in more sophisticated ways, as a “thought partner” for iteration and feedback.
McCrory said the findings suggest that AI is becoming a technology that rewards those who already know how to use it, and that workers who can effectively integrate it into their work will have an increasing advantage.
This advantage is not evenly distributed geographically either. The report also found that “Cloud is used extensively in high-income countries, within the United States in places with more knowledgeable workers, and for a relatively small set of specialized tasks and occupations.”
In other words, despite the promise of AI as an equalizer, AI adoption may actually be skewed toward the wealthy, and could amplify these advantages as powerful users move forward.
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