AI Adoption in Hiring2025
AI mainly augments (57%) not automates (8%); top use: software engineering (37%)
Analysis of millions of Claude API conversations found software engineering (37.2%) is the top AI-assisted task in enterprise settings, followed by data analysis (17.5%) and writing/editing (13.8%); 57% of interactions augment workers rather than automate tasks end-to-end.
Primary source
Anthropic Economic Index 2025
https://www.anthropic.com/research/anthropic-economic-indexPublished 2025 — compiled by JobCannon Research.
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