AI Reports · Anthropic · 2026-10-16 · Report / white paper
Working at the frontier shapes expectations for the future
Anthropic published two reports: one on how AI is changing employment inside the company, and one comparing how the public and Anthropic employees expect AI to affect work and the economy. The company says staff and US workers hold similar theories about how AI affects jobs but have different experiences of what AI can do, and those experiences shape their views on future work. By March 2026, agents worked more hours than employees, and by August there were six times as many agents as employees.