Anthropic, the maker of the AI chatbot Claude, announced it has built an early warning system to track which jobs in the United States are most exposed to artificial intelligence. Its initial findings suggest that many white-collar roles are located near the front lines.
The company’s new research comes as concerns grow that AI will take away jobs. young job seeker. Older white-collar workers are concerned about long-term job security in the face of generative AI tools and modern tools with more capabilities than ever before. dismissal from a company Amazon, Block, etc. cited AI.
Anthropic researchers tracked the gap between the capabilities of AI and how the technology is actually used by workers in different professions. The analysis found “limited evidence that AI has impacted employment to date.”
Early fears that AI was responsible for increased unemployment among young college graduates may also have been exaggerated, the researchers said, pointing only to “suggestive evidence that employment among young workers is slowing in exposed occupations.”
But despite finding that AI has had little measurable impact on the labor market so far, the researchers said the technology could eventually lead to seismic shifts in many professions, from lawyers to salespeople.
Most exposed occupations
To determine job exposure, Anthropic compared the AI’s ability to perform certain tasks to how common those tasks are across occupations.
Work consists of many tasks, and while some tasks are easy to replace with AI, others are difficult to replace. In the case of education, the researchers noted that AI chatbots can grade homework but cannot manage children’s classrooms.
Anthropic said job “exposure” is based on the percentage of tasks that artificial intelligence can potentially speed up or help perform.
The 10 occupations that Anthropic has identified as most exposed to AI are:
- Computer programmer: 75%
- Customer service representative: 70%
- Data entry keyer: 67%
- Medical records specialist: 67%
- Market research analysts and marketing specialists: 65%
- Salesperson: 63%
- Financial and investment analysts: 57%
- Software Quality Assurance Analyst: 52%
- Information security analyst: 49%
- Computer User Support Specialist: 47%
Citing data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), Anthropic revealed that occupations considered “exposed” to artificial intelligence are projected to grow more slowly through 2034.
Workers in these occupations are more likely to be “older, female, better educated, and have higher incomes,” the anthropology researchers said. it matches Previous research Researchers found that female-dominated occupations, such as administrative assistants and clerks, were most vulnerable to AI.
Occupations with the least exposure tend to require physical ability. Occupations such as groundskeepers, cooks, motorcycle mechanics, lifeguards, and bartenders rank among the least exposed.
