People have pressing questions about AI and work: which jobs will shift, which tasks are being automated, and what it all means for their own field. The Anthropic Economic Index was created to help answer those questions with real data. Anthropic has now released the Anthropic Economic Index connector for Claude, enabling anyone to explore that data directly.
The Anthropic Economic Index tracks how AI is actually being used across the economy. While the Index's data has proven valuable to researchers, journalists, and policymakers, Anthropic wants it to be equally accessible to anyone curious about how AI fits into their field or daily life. Users can now ask Claude questions such as:
- "Which occupations use AI the most?"
- "What are the most common ways people in Colorado use Claude?"
- "What sorts of tasks do teachers use Claude for?"
- "What kinds of tasks are people automating with AI? How has that changed over the past year?"
Answers are grounded directly in the Index data.
Getting started takes about a minute. In claude.ai, users can open the connectors menu, find the Anthropic Economic Index in the directory, and enable it-it works in any conversation with any Claude model, and there's nothing to install. From there, users can ask questions naturally: start broad ("What does the Index say about my industry?"), then drill into specifics, and ask Claude to surface the underlying data behind any answer.
As always, the Index reflects patterns in Claude usage rather than the labor market as a whole, and Claude will direct users back to the source data and its limitations during exploration. The connector is available in claude.ai now, and the full datasets remain freely available on Anthropic's website.