Anthropic Economic Index report: Cadences
Anthropic's Anthropic Economic Index report: Cadences (June 2026; n=~9,700 linked survey respondents; Claude usage data; 81,000 user interviews (Dec 2025), fielded Apr 10 – Jun 10, 2026) found that 86% of surveyed Claude users report speed gains from AI.
Key findings
- 01Over one-third of respondents expect AI to handle most or nearly all of their work tasks within 12 months.
- 0210% rated losing their job in the next year as likely or very likely.
- 03Computer and mathematical occupations were 30% of respondents versus 4% of US employment.
By the numbers
86%of surveyed Claude users report speed gains from AI
10%rate losing their own job in the next year as likely or very likely
68%say they learn more when using AI
What it means for you Draft
For executives at $10–100M companies
This tells us how heavy AI users experience their work, not how typical workers or firms do; the sample leans heavily toward technical roles. It is still a useful signal of where things may head as tools mature. We would read it alongside the Census and Fed data, not instead of them.
Limitations
Low trust.Publisher sells AI and studies its own users; sample skewed to technical occupations. Method and data are unusually transparent (open dataset).
About the publisher: Makes Claude; studies its own users.
Anthropic. "Anthropic Economic Index report: Cadences." June 26, 2026. https://www.anthropic.com/research/economic-index-june-2026-report
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