Anthropic Economic Index report: Learning curves

The Anthropic Economic Index tracks how Claude is being used across the economy. It’s part of the company's effort to understand the economic impacts of AI as early as possible, so that researchers and policymakers have adequate time to prepare. A central finding is that early adoption of Claude is very uneven: Claude is used more intensely in high-income countries, within the US in places with more knowledge workers, and for a relatively small set of specialized tasks and occupations. An important question is how inequality of adoption might determine where and to whom the benefits of AI will accrue. If, for example, effective AI use requires complementary skills and expertise—which we argued in our previous report—and if such skills can be acquired through use and experimentation, then the benefits from early adoption may be self-reinforcing.