35% of Claude users see AI doing most of their work next year: Report

Anthropic's latest Economic Index Report found that over 35% of Claude users believe AI could perform most of their work within the next year, reflecting the technology's growing integration

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes deeply integrated into daily life, over a third of users believe the technology will soon dominate their workloads. According to Anthropic's latest Economic Index Report, more than 35 per cent of Claude users expect AI to be capable of handling most of their work within the next year.

 

The report examines AI's impact on the labour market and economy, focusing on how the technology is being woven into the cadence of how people work and live. This edition looks at how the world comes to AI, how people put AI to work, and how they perceive its impact on work. The report said that people are adopting and using AI across their everyday lives. “Time of day, day of week, and even specific days of the year shape how people use Claude: people ask for the news around 6 am, business email drafting peaks mid-morning, recipe requests spike to 2.3x their average at 6 pm, and sleep advice clusters in the small hours of the night,” said the report.

 

Almost 93 per cent of Claude conversations result in tangible outputs, ranging from explanations and documents to apps, scripts, and fixes. In conversations for tasks tied to higher-wage occupations, Claude augments more than replaces human effort, producing higher-value outputs with the person collaborating throughout.

 

The third highlight of the report is that people who delegate more to AI feel more optimistic, not less. “Based on survey analysis with 9,700 Claude users, most respondents expect significant near-term AI impacts on their jobs, but those who delegate the most tasks to AI are the most optimistic about their futures in terms of job security, new opportunities, and pay,” said the report. This is the first time that an AI major is asking users directly ‘how they use AI and what they feel about it’,” the report said.

 

AI is diffusing rapidly throughout the economy, across an increasing number of surfaces, with increasingly intelligent outputs. In earlier AI chat interfaces, usage was simple, contained in the chat window without web search, tool calls, artifacts, or other affordances, said the report. Now, Claude models can operate autonomously for hours through Claude Code and Cowork. As these forms change, the user base is shifting as well. Early adopters were highly technical. The most recent users apply Claude to tasks that command lower wages in the labour market.

 

Key findings for India:

• The most common topics in India:
• Homework — 7.9 per cent
• Web front-end — 5.1 per cent
• Self-presentation writing — 4.6 per cent
• Promotional writing — 4.6 per cent

Most distinctive topics that appear more in India:

• Maths and CS theory — 2.0x
• AI app building — 1.8x
• Document transformation — 1.6x
• Web front-end — 1.5x