Why Anthropic's Economic and Jobs Research on AI Exposure Is Misleading

The newest report is interesting but misses something important in the analysis of "jobs lost" due to AI

Anthropic has been doing an amazing job helping us understand the impact of AI on the job market, and what we’ve found is that almost none of the studies clearly show the level of job destruction expected. Here’s the report:

I’ll try to explain what I think is going on.

What the Anthropic economists have done is easy to understand. By taking a “job” apar…