AI career impact
Human-AI collaboration by industry
Employment-weighted AI collaboration patterns for 20 U.S. industries, combining the Anthropic Economic Index (May 2026) with the BLS National Employment Matrix.
Data compiled 2026-10-09 · BLS 2025–35 · O*NET 31.0 · AEI May 2026
Global Claude.ai conversations with a classified collaboration pattern (excluding unclassified conversations), May 2026
51.4%
augmentation, vs. 48.6% automation.
Anthropic Economic Index (May 2026)
All industries
Sorted by employment-weighted augmentation share
| Industry | Augmentation | Avg. exposure (β) | Jobs, 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Educational Services | 56.4% | 35% | 14.9 million |
| Retail Trade | 53.4% | 31% | 15.4 million |
| Finance and Insurance | 50.6% | 52% | 6.7 million |
| Healthcare and Social Assistance | 50.5% | 30% | 24.5 million |
| Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services | 49.1% | 47% | 10.8 million |
| Information | 48.8% | 47% | 2.9 million |
| Management of Companies and Enterprises | 48.1% | 48% | 2.6 million |
| Other Services (Except Public Administration) | 46.4% | 27% | 6.6 million |
| Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation | 45.8% | 29% | 2.7 million |
| Wholesale Trade | 44.1% | 37% | 6.1 million |
| Government | 44.0% | 34% | 11.5 million |
| Real Estate and Rental and Leasing | 43.5% | 35% | 2.5 million |
| Manufacturing | 43.2% | 22% | 12.6 million |
| Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing, and Hunting | 43.1% | 16% | 1.5 million |
| Accommodation and Food Services | 42.8% | 16% | 14.2 million |
| Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction | 42.0% | 20% | 573,500 |
| Utilities | 39.8% | 29% | 601,300 |
| Construction | 39.4% | 19% | 8.3 million |
| Administrative, Support, and Waste Management Services | 38.7% | 26% | 9.0 million |
| Transportation and Warehousing | 34.2% | 22% | 6.6 million |
Sources & methodology
Every figure on this page comes from the public datasets below. We do not edit the source values; derived figures are explained here.
- Collaboration shares come from Anthropic Economic Index data for Claude.ai conversations in May 2026, classified to the O*NET tasks they match. "Automation" groups directive and feedback-loop conversations; "augmentation" groups task iteration, learning, and validation. Both buckets are shares of conversations with a classified collaboration pattern, excluding the unclassified "none" pattern; the six individual pattern shares include unclassified conversations. They describe how people use Claude on this occupation's tasks — not what share of workers in the occupation use AI.
- Industry figures weight each occupation's AEI shares by its 2025 employment in the industry from the BLS National Employment Matrix. Coverage shows the share of the industry's detailed-occupation employment with AEI data.
- Average exposure is the employment-weighted Eloundou et al. β; "high-exposure jobs" are occupations with β of 0.5 or more.
- BLS occupations are matched to O*NET-SOC codes with the BLS O*NET-to-NEM crosswalk; where a BLS occupation spans several O*NET occupations, we average their values.
Anthropic Economic Index (May 2026)
Massenkoff, M., Lyubich, E., Sacher, S., Hitzig, Z., Zhang, S., Heller, R., & McCrory, P. (2026). "Anthropic Economic Index report: Cadences." Anthropic, June 26, 2026. Claude.ai usage metrics by occupation, global, May 2026.
Vintage: Release of June 26, 2026; Claude.ai conversations from May 2026. License: CC BY (data). Retrieved 2026-10-09.
BLS National Employment Matrix 2025–35
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections program. 2025–35 National Employment Matrix, industry-occupation employment.
Vintage: 2025 base year, 2035 projection, released August 27, 2026. License: Public domain (U.S. federal government work). Retrieved 2026-10-09.
Eloundou, T., Manning, S., Mishkin, P., & Rock, D. (2024). "GPTs are GPTs: Labor market impact potential of LLMs." Science, 384(6702), 1306–1308. doi:10.1126/science.adj0998. Occupation- and task-level exposure data from the authors' public repository (openai/GPTs-are-GPTs).
Vintage: Published June 21, 2024; human annotations of O*NET tasks collected 2023. License: Data repository: MIT License. Retrieved 2026-10-09.
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