@jaredtm.bsky.social
Oregonian on the @anthropic.com Policy team. Views are my own.
Total Factor Productivity?
Willingness To Pay?
Why The Face?
Most of these and more now all together on Becker Friedman Institute for Economics' BFI Blackboard!
bfi.uchicago.edu/bfi-blackboa...
We’re sharing several economic policy ideas that we think merit further study — some from our Economic Advisory Council, others from presenters at our September Economic Futures Symposium @mccourtschool.bsky.social. Feedback is welcome! www.anthropic.com/research/eco...
14.10.2025 17:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0“It may sound overly simplistic, but making predictions by extrapolating straight lines on graphs is likely to give you a better model of the future than most ’experts’ - even better than most actual domain experts!”
28.09.2025 11:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The Anthropic Economic Index now covers geographic and 1P API data.
We’re releasing new research, open source datasets, and an interactive website to explore AI usage across the world.
Anthropic's Alex Tamkin and Kunal Handa present their paper "Which Economic Tasks are Performed with AI? Evidence from Millions of Claude Conversations" at the 2025 NBER Summer Institute.
Great questions and feedback for @alextamkin.bsky.social and @kunalhanda.bsky.social at this month's @nber.org Summer Institute. Kunal and Alex were in town to present arxiv.org/abs/2503.04761
Send ideas for research on (and policy responses for) AI x Economics to: www.anthropic.com/economic-fut...
This Monday 5/19, @alextamkin.bsky.social of @anthropic.com will stop by the Lab for our seminar series!
Details and registration here: digitaleconomy.stanford.edu/event/alex-t...
New @jackclarksf.bsky.social interview on the "Conversations with Tyler" podcast out today. Covers a ton of ground on AI- from its impact on the economy to agents and people's attachment to AI. Take a listen here: conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/jac...
07.05.2025 17:59 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
New findings from the @anthropic.com Economic Index on coding use cases include: “Startups are the main early adopters of Claude Code, while enterprises lag behind.” More here: www.anthropic.com/research/imp...
28.04.2025 17:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Really proud and excited to release work on empirically measuring AI values “in the wild” — understanding, analyzing and taxonomizing what values guide model outputs in real interactions with real users.
www.anthropic.com/research/val...
Some new research out today by @kunalhanda.bsky.social with an early look at how college students are using Claude on campus: www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...
08.04.2025 20:13 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The latest @anthropic.com Economic Index report is out now. The Index aims to understand how AI will impact the labor market and economy over time - and we do that by analyzing real-world Claude Sonnet 3.7 usage and how people are using its extended thinking mode. www.anthropic.com/news/anthrop...
28.03.2025 06:27 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
@caseynewton.bsky.social on the latest @anthropic.com Economic Index reporter authored by @alextamkin.bsky.social: www.platformer.news/people-are-u...
28.03.2025 06:19 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Save the date: @alextamkin.bsky.social joins @beckerfriedman.bsky.social economists and Chicago’s former Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Samir Mayekar on 4/15 to discuss AI’s impact on the economy and the @anthropic.com Economic Index.
26.03.2025 17:19 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
‼️PUBLIC EVENT‼️
Join UChicago economists, public policy experts, and Anthropic’s Alex Tamkin for a discussion on AI's impact on the economy today and tomorrow. Featuring Anders Humlum, Sanjog Misra, and Samir Mayekar. Info and registration here: ow.ly/Rq9150VnBys
@alextamkin.bsky.social in @washingtonpost.com today re: Claude usage we're seeing in occupation-linked tasks from our @anthropic.com Economic Index research: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
14.03.2025 22:39 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I'm here in DC today to talk about Anthropic's Economic Index research on AI and work on a panel moderated by @ashleyrgold.bsky.social at AEI.
Come join in-person or tune in virtually: www.aei.org/events/ai-an...
"Claude 3.7, do the AGI unicorn thing in the PDF but make it like 10x more impressive to really show those sparks, don't limit yourself to TikZ or even images"
(I pasted in the Sparks of AGI paper). Here is what it did
Been using Claude 3.7 for a couple days and it is very, very good.
Its "vibe coding" from language is impressive. I wrote a whole Substack post about the model (& Grok 3).
Here's a one-shot prompted game based on the Melville story “Bartleby the Scrivener” www.oneusefulthing.org/p/a-new-gene...
In case you missed the launch of Anthropic's new Economic Index, here's a great summary from Axios highlighting the primary takeaways:
www.axios.com/2025/02/10/a...
A title card with dark text on a cream background reading 'Which Economic Tasks are Performed with AI? Evidence from Millions of Claude Conversations' by Handa & Tamkin et al. The Anthropic logo appears in the bottom left. On the right is a black and white macro photograph of a worker bee on a honeycomb.
How is AI being used across the economy?
We have some new research and datasets to share:
Paper: assets.anthropic.com/m/2e23255f1e...
Data: huggingface.co/datasets/Ant...
Blogpost: anthropic.com/news/the-ant...
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Courtesy of @johnjhorton.bsky.social 🎓🍎
14.02.2025 12:41 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
There is a lot of important stuff in this new paper by Anthropic that shows how people are actually using Claude.
1) The tasks that people are asking AI to do are some of the highest-value (& often intellectually challenging)
2) Adoption is uneven, but many highly compensated fields already are high
I'm very excited about this initiative and in particular the contributions of @beckerfriedman.bsky.social scholars especially Anders Humlum, as well as Michael Kremer
@devinnovationlab.bsky.social and John List @johnlist.bsky.social. More to come!
www.anthropic.com/economic-index
@alextamkin.bsky.social and other great @anthropic.com colleagues ask “How difficult is AI alignment?”
m.youtube.com/watch?v=IPmt...
Anthropic Alignment Science is sharing a list of research directions we are interested in seeing more work on!
Blog post below 👇
What can AI researchers do *today* that AI developers will find useful for ensuring the safety of future advanced AI systems? To ring in the new year, the Anthropic Alignment Science team is sharing some thoughts on research directions we think are important.
alignment.anthropic.com/2025/recomme...
Title card: Alignment Faking in Large Language Models by Greenblatt et al.
New work from my team at Anthropic in collaboration with Redwood Research. I think this is plausibly the most important AGI safety result of the year. Cross-posting the thread below:
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Anthropic blog post on Clio here: www.anthropic.com/research/clio
Proud of the societal impacts team and particularly of @miles.land and @alextamkin.bsky.social who have been incredibly dedicated to getting Clio right.
How are AI Assistants being used in the real world?
Our new research shows how to answer this question in a privacy preserving way, automatically identifying trends in Claude usage across the world.
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