Anthropic's latest research suggests that while AI is rapidly changing the way work gets done, it hasn't meaningfully eliminated jobs. At least, not yet. But beneath what Anthropic's head of economics, Peter McCrory, says is a 'still healthy' labor market, early signs are pointing to uneven impacts, especially for younger workers just entering the workforce. 'There's no material difference in unemployment rates' between workers who use Claude for the 'most central task of their job in automated ways' ' like 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 with AI adoption spreading across industries, that could shift ' fast. 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. @PeterMcCrory is @AnthropicAI's head of economics. He says...
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