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An Anthropic study aimed to quantify the economic impacts of AI.
It found that AI could double the US economy's annual growth rate.
Time-saving with AI varies significantly across industries.
Tech companies have promised time and time again that the technology will boost human productivity, and by extension, economic growth. But accurately measuring the legitimacy of such claims is difficult, since individual employees and organizations are using AI for different purposes, and it's not yet clear that it can deliver the ROI that businesses have hoped for.
A new study from Anthropic, however, shines some light on the economic impacts of AI that can be expected over the next several years.
Also: OpenAI tested GPT-5, Claude, and Gemini on real-world tasks - the results were surprising
Published last week, the study analyzed 100,000 anonymized user conversations with Claude to find out how long various tasks would take with and without the chatbot's help. The researchers found that, on average, Claude helped users complete tasks around 80% faster than it would've taken without its assistance.
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