Which Economic Tasks are Performed with AI? Evidence from Millions of Claude Conversations
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| author | Handa, Kunal Tamkin, Alex McCain, Miles Huang, Saffron Durmus, Esin Heck, Sarah Mueller, Jared Hong, Jerry Ritchie, Stuart Belonax, Tim Troy, Kevin K. Amodei, Dario Kaplan, Jared Clark, Jack Ganguli, Deep |
| author_facet | Handa, Kunal Tamkin, Alex McCain, Miles Huang, Saffron Durmus, Esin Heck, Sarah Mueller, Jared Hong, Jerry Ritchie, Stuart Belonax, Tim Troy, Kevin K. Amodei, Dario Kaplan, Jared Clark, Jack Ganguli, Deep |
| contents | Despite widespread speculation about artificial intelligence's impact on the future of work, we lack systematic empirical evidence about how these systems are actually being used for different tasks. Here, we present a novel framework for measuring AI usage patterns across the economy. We leverage a recent privacy-preserving system to analyze over four million Claude.ai conversations through the lens of tasks and occupations in the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET Database. Our analysis reveals that AI usage primarily concentrates in software development and writing tasks, which together account for nearly half of all total usage. However, usage of AI extends more broadly across the economy, with approximately 36% of occupations using AI for at least a quarter of their associated tasks. We also analyze how AI is being used for tasks, finding 57% of usage suggests augmentation of human capabilities (e.g., learning or iterating on an output) while 43% suggests automation (e.g., fulfilling a request with minimal human involvement). While our data and methods face important limitations and only paint a picture of AI usage on a single platform, they provide an automated, granular approach for tracking AI's evolving role in the economy and identifying leading indicators of future impact as these technologies continue to advance. |
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| spellingShingle | Which Economic Tasks are Performed with AI? Evidence from Millions of Claude Conversations Handa, Kunal Tamkin, Alex McCain, Miles Huang, Saffron Durmus, Esin Heck, Sarah Mueller, Jared Hong, Jerry Ritchie, Stuart Belonax, Tim Troy, Kevin K. Amodei, Dario Kaplan, Jared Clark, Jack Ganguli, Deep Computers and Society Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Human-Computer Interaction Machine Learning Despite widespread speculation about artificial intelligence's impact on the future of work, we lack systematic empirical evidence about how these systems are actually being used for different tasks. Here, we present a novel framework for measuring AI usage patterns across the economy. We leverage a recent privacy-preserving system to analyze over four million Claude.ai conversations through the lens of tasks and occupations in the U.S. Department of Labor's O*NET Database. Our analysis reveals that AI usage primarily concentrates in software development and writing tasks, which together account for nearly half of all total usage. However, usage of AI extends more broadly across the economy, with approximately 36% of occupations using AI for at least a quarter of their associated tasks. We also analyze how AI is being used for tasks, finding 57% of usage suggests augmentation of human capabilities (e.g., learning or iterating on an output) while 43% suggests automation (e.g., fulfilling a request with minimal human involvement). While our data and methods face important limitations and only paint a picture of AI usage on a single platform, they provide an automated, granular approach for tracking AI's evolving role in the economy and identifying leading indicators of future impact as these technologies continue to advance. |
| title | Which Economic Tasks are Performed with AI? Evidence from Millions of Claude Conversations |
| topic | Computers and Society Artificial Intelligence Computation and Language Human-Computer Interaction Machine Learning |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.04761 |