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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

This work wouldn’t have been possible without my fantastic coauthors Ruth Appel*, Peter McCrory*, Michael Stern, Miles McCain, Tyler Neylon, and and the enormously talented team behind the project. Stay tuned for more!

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

See the report and interactive website for much more, including a job explorer where you can see what fraction of tasks in each job people are using AI for. www.anthropic.com/economic-ind...

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Finally, in “power laws rule everything around me,” it turns out that usage across different use cases is, of course, distributed in the same way.

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Unsurprisingly, we see much more automation on the API, reflecting how the API tends to use be used more programmatically rather than through an interactive interfaces.

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

We also release first-of-its-kind insights on how people are using the Anthropic 1P API, using our privacy-preserving analysis system. Use cases range from interior design to analyzing financial reports to helping with freight logistics.

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

We also see a surprising correlation between usage and interaction style. People in higher-use countries tend to use Claude more collaboratively rather than simply delegating to it. We’re not sure why this is, and would be interested to see more research on here.

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Second, AI use is dramatically uneven across the world. We see a strong correlation of usage per capita with GDP per capita, raising the prospect of a new Great Divergence. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_D...

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

First, users are delegating more tasks to Claude. This could reflect both increased user trust in AI and model improvements. We see more activity associated with code creation and less with debugging, which might mean users can accomplish their goals more in a single shot.

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

The Anthropic Economic Index now covers geographic and 1P API data. We’re releasing new research, open source datasets, and an interactive website to explore AI usage across the world.

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Jennifer Martinez @itsjenmartinez.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

@caseynewton.bsky.social on the latest @anthropic.com Economic Index reporter authored by @alextamkin.bsky.social: www.platformer.news/people-are-u...

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Jared Mueller @jaredtm.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

Save the date: @alextamkin.bsky.social joins @beckerfriedman.bsky.social economists and Chicago’s former Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Samir Mayekar on 4/15 to discuss AI’s impact on the economy and the @anthropic.com Economic Index.

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

"gets rave reviews from clients"

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

I'm here in DC today to talk about Anthropic's Economic Index research on AI and work on a panel moderated by @ashleyrgold.bsky.social at AEI. Come join in-person or tune in virtually: www.aei.org/events/ai-an...

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Jennifer Martinez @itsjenmartinez.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

@alextamkin.bsky.social in @washingtonpost.com today re: Claude usage we're seeing in occupation-linked tasks from our @anthropic.com Economic Index research: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Thanks to everyone else who gave feedback and helped out along the way. There's lots more to come, so stay tuned. 6/6🌅

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

This work was a huge group effort. Thanks to my amazing coauthors, including co-lead Kunal Handa, Miles McCain, Saffron Huang, Esin Durmus, Sarah Heck, Jared Mueller, Jerry Hong, Stuart Ritchie, Tim Belonax, Kevin K. Troy, Dario Amodei, Jared Kaplan, Jack Clark, and Deep Ganguli 5/

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Third, there are many limitations to our work! (See Section 4.1 in the paper). We're working on making progress on them. We’re also excited to see what others do with our data—please get in touch via this form with any feedback or input: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 4/

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Anthropic's Economic Data: Feedback & Interest Form

We have developed a privacy-preserving dataset from millions of human-AI interactions across economic tasks. Our aggregated and anonymized dataset provides unique insights into how AI systems are bein...

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Second, because our methods are fully automated, we can run the same process over time on a recurring basis. This gives us a moving picture of how AI is advancing across the economy, and identifies leading indicators that we can use to plan. 3/

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

While those links have all the details, I wanted to call out two additional points: First, I’m excited that our methods give insight into *how* work is done with AI There’s a lot of interest in *what* tasks AI will do, but *how* AI changes the nature of work is also crucial. 2/

A horizontal bar chart comparing Augmentation vs Automation of tasks, showing percentage of conversations. The Augmentation bar (57% total) is split into three categories: Validation (2.8%), Task iteration (31.3%), and Learning (23.3%). The Automation bar (43% total) is divided into two categories: Feedback loop (14.8%) and Directive (27.8%). The bars use different shades of blue for Augmentation and purple for Automation categories. The graph suggests AI is used slightly more for augmenting human tasks than for automation.

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

How is AI being used across the economy? We have some new research and datasets to share: Paper: assets.anthropic.com/m/2e23255f1e... Data: huggingface.co/datasets/Ant... Blogpost: anthropic.com/news/the-ant... 1/

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Sam Bowman @sleepinyourhat.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

New work from my team at Anthropic in collaboration with Redwood Research. I think this is plausibly the most important AGI safety result of the year. Cross-posting the thread below:

Title card: Alignment Faking in Large Language Models by Greenblatt et al.

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

How are AI Assistants being used in the real world? Our new research shows how to answer this question in a privacy preserving way, automatically identifying trends in Claude usage across the world. 1/

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Casey Newton @caseynewton.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Clio is Anthropic's new system for identifying AI risks that it hadn't thought to look for — what it calls the unknown unknowns. I talked with team that built it and share for the first time the top three ways people use Claude www.platformer.news/how-claude-u...

In what the company is calling a first for a major AI lab, the Clio paper also highlights the top three categories of uses for Claude:

Coding and software development (more than 10 percent of conversations)
Educational use, both for teachers and for students (more than 7 percent)
Business strategy and operations, such as drafting professional communications and analyzing business data (almost 6 percent)

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

We also talk at length in the blogpost and paper about how Clio works, its privacy measures, and how its insights can help us improve our current and future safety systems: www.anthropic.com/research/clio Paper: assets.anthropic.com/m/7e1ab885d1... 4/

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Clio: Privacy-preserving insights into real-world AI use

A blog post describing Anthropic’s new system, Clio, for analyzing how people use AI while maintaining their privacy

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

And some insights into how Claude use varies across different languages 3/

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

For example, here are the most common use cases on Claude.ai… 2/

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Eventually your learning rate slows!

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Isabel Papadimitriou @isabelpapad.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Do you want to understand how language models work, and how they can change language science? I'm recruiting PhD students at UBC Linguistics! The research will be fun, and Vancouver is lovely. So much cool NLP happening at UBC across both Ling and CS! linguistics.ubc.ca/graduate/adm...

Aerial picture of the UBC campus, with an arrow pointing to a building and text asking "Your PhD lab?"

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Alex Tamkin @alextamkin.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Some really cool interpretability work on protein language models! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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