Anthropic’s Economic Research team studies how AI is reshaping the economy, with focus areas including work, productivity, and economic opportunity. The team states that it builds an empirical foundation for understanding AI’s economic impact through data collection and analysis, and publishes research intended to help policymakers, businesses, and the public prepare for the changes ahead.

The team’s flagship instrument is the Anthropic Economic Index, which tracks how AI tools are actually used around the world and across every economic sector, moving beyond speculation to measure adoption patterns as they unfold. Alongside index reports, the team produces research on what the tracked usage and diffusion imply for workers, firms, and the broader economy. The rationale given is that economic transitions create both opportunity and disruption, and the speed of AI development raises the stakes; the team’s evidence is meant to inform decisions by workers, employers, and policymakers.

The page lists a series of publications. A survey study of 81,000 Claude users connects people’s economic concerns to what has been quantified in Claude traffic. A paper titled ‘Labor market impacts of AI: A new measure and early evidence’ introduces a framework for understanding AI’s labor market impacts and tests it against early data. The ‘Economic primitives’ report introduces new metrics of AI usage, providing a portrait of Claude interactions in November 2025, just before the release of Opus 4.5. Another study, analyzing 100,000 Claude conversations, estimates that AI reduces task time by 80% on average. Additional listed research covers agentic coding and returns to expertise, coding agents in the social sciences, cadences, learning curves, country-specific findings for Canada and Australia, and a review of evidence on worker retraining programs.