
This week’s chart comes from Anthropic’s new labour market impact study, published on Wednesday, and it tells quite a story. The radar plot shows two things: the blue area represents the share of job tasks that LLMs could theoretically perform across 22 occupational categories, and the red area shows what people are actually using Claude for in practice. The gap between the two is striking. In Computer & Math roles, theoretical coverage sits at 94%, but observed usage is just 33%. Management roles show a similar pattern: high theoretical exposure, minimal real-world adoption. Across the board, the blue dwarfs the red. The gap between what AI can do and what it is doing is still large, but it is closing. While Anthropic found no systematic rise in unemployment across AI-exposed occupations, they did find a 14% drop in job-finding rates for workers aged 22 to 25 in those same roles. That’s the place to look for a leading indicator of AI’s impact on other exposed areas.
