Anthropic published the first report of the Anthropic Economic Index, an ongoing effort to track AI's effects on labor markets and the economy. The method analyzes roughly a million anonymized claude.ai conversations with a privacy-preserving tool called Clio and maps them onto the roughly 20,000 job tasks in the US Department of Labor's O*NET database. Usage clustered in software development and technical writing, and skewed toward tasks in mid-to-high wage occupations such as programmers and data scientists while being thinner at both the lowest- and highest-paid ends. Regularly publishing what its own service is actually used for drew attention as a form of transparency from an AI company.