Forbes January 23, 2026
A new study from Anthropic suggests that the relationship between artificial intelligence and employment may be more incremental and complicated than current discourse suggests.
The latest edition of the Anthropic Economic Index, released last week, analyzed roughly two million anonymized Claude conversations from last year, across both free and paid versions of the AI product. The report looked at how people are using AI at work and how those uses are changing jobs in practice.
Notably, rather than job destruction, the headline finding is job fragmentation: According to the study, 49% of U.S. jobs now involve tasks where AI can be used for at least a quarter of the work involved, up from 36% in early 2025. In most cases,...
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