5 papers
Who's in Charge? Disempowerment Patterns in Real-World LLM Usage
Mrinank Sharma, Miles McCain, Raymond Douglas +1
Although AI assistants are now deeply embedded in society, there has been limited empirical study of how their usage affects human empowerment. We present the first large-scale emp…
Anthropic Economic Index report: Uneven geographic and enterprise AI adoption
Ruth Appel, Peter McCrory, Alex Tamkin +3
In this report, we document patterns of Claude usage over time, in 150+ countries, across US states, and among businesses deploying Claude through the API. Based on a privacy-prese…
Values in the Wild: Discovering and Analyzing Values in Real-World Language Model Interactions
Saffron Huang, Esin Durmus, Miles McCain +7
AI assistants can impart value judgments that shape people's decisions and worldviews, yet little is known empirically about what values these systems rely on in practice. To addre…
Which Economic Tasks are Performed with AI? Evidence from Millions of Claude Conversations
Kunal Handa, Alex Tamkin, Miles McCain +12
Despite widespread speculation about artificial intelligence's impact on the future of work, we lack systematic empirical evidence about how these systems are actually being used f…
Clio: Privacy-Preserving Insights into Real-World AI Use
Alex Tamkin, Miles McCain, Kunal Handa +18
How are AI assistants being used in the real world? While model providers in theory have a window into this impact via their users' data, both privacy concerns and practical challe…