AI Automation Surges, Threatening jobs Within Years, New Anthropic Study Finds
New York, NY – A new report from AI startup Anthropic reveals a striking trend: businesses are overwhelmingly deploying artificial intelligence to automate tasks, rather than to enhance human work, possibly leading to important job displacement in the near future. The findings,released Monday,indicate that 77% of businesses utilizing Anthropic’s claude AI platform are doing so for automation purposes,compared to just 12% who are using it to augment or improve existing work.
The report’s findings raise concerns about the future of work, suggesting a shift towards AI-driven task delegation that could disrupt labor markets. Anthropic, recently valued at $18.3 billion, found the high rate of automation may “bring disruption in labor markets, potentially displacing those workers whose roles are most likely to face automation.” This trend is occurring as companies become more comfortable with AI capabilities,though researchers are still determining whether the increased automation is driven by AI’s growing abilities or increased user willingness to delegate.
According to the report, the 77% automation rate ”suggests enterprises use Claude to delegate tasks, rather than as a collaborative tool.” Anthropic’s Head of Economics, Peter McCrory, told Bloomberg that researchers are currently investigating whether the reliance on automation stems from “new model capabilities” allowing AI to take on more duties, or from “people being more comfortable” with AI and “more willing to delegate certain tasks to Claude.”
Understanding the underlying cause is “an important area of research for the future,” McCrory stated. the study underscores a growing anxiety among workers about the potential for AI to replace their jobs, a concern echoed in recent analyses identifying specific professions – including those in administrative support, customer service, and data entry – as particularly vulnerable to automation.
