Anthropic’s assessment of over 4 million user-submitted AI prompts found that most workers used the technology to augment their work, not replace it. In fact, AI jobs are emerging as a way to enhance productivity and support workers rather than eliminate roles.
Dive Brief:
- Workers are using artificial intelligence slightly more for augmentation (57%) than for automation (43%), an analysis of more than 4 million AI user prompts by AI safety and research company Anthropic found.
- Computer and mathematical workers, particularly software engineers, made up the bulk of employees using AI for work tasks. Of all requests sent to Claude, Anthropic’s native AI, 37.2% were in this job category. Some of the most common task requests included software modification, code debugging and network troubleshooting.
- “If it remains the case that AI is used only for certain tasks, and only a few jobs use AI for the vast majority of their tasks, the future might be one where most current jobs evolve rather than disappear,” Anthropic concluded.
Dive Insight:
Anthropic’s analysis is the first to come alongside the launch of its Anthropic Economic Index, an initiative “aimed at understanding AI’s effects on labor markets and the economy over time,” the company said.
Although the company acknowledged that “the labor-market picture may look quite different within a relatively short time,” the initial findings may be reassuring to workers fearful that AI could replace them.
Crucially, Anthropic found that very few occupations make substantial use of AI. Only about 4% of jobs used the tool for at least 75% of tasks, the company found, while a little over a third of jobs used AI for at least 25% of tasks.
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Source : https://www.hrdive.com/news/anthropic-report-AI-software-engineers-automation-augmentation/739833/
