Here’s how AI is impacting work

Anthropic recently conducted a research study of its own engineers to determine how AI is changing work – and found that AI tools are boosting productivity, while raising concerns about skills attrition, decreased human collaboration, and job loss.

Anthropic shared the findings of its August research study in a blog post Published on Tuesday. Startup, last rated $183 billion In September, surveyed its own 132 engineers, conducted 53 detailed interviews and studied internal usage data cloud codeIts coding tool. The study sought to better understand how the use of AI is changing work for a startup called Anthropic 3,000 employees,

“We found that the use of AI is fundamentally changing the nature of work for software developers, giving rise to both hope and concern,” the researchers wrote in a blog post.

Engineers reported getting more done and succeeding in various technical tasks beyond their normal expertise with the help of AI. Employees can completely delegate up to 20% of their tasks to the cloud, mainly complex tasks.

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Employees were able to tackle a wide range of tasks, but they were concerned that they might lose more specialized technical capability in favor of generality. While many are concerned about losing deeper coding skills like writing and critiquing code, one employee noted in an interview for the study that learning is more difficult when coding assistants like the cloud are readily available to code solutions.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said in March that AI would write all the code for software engineers within a year. “In terms of jobs, I’m quite concerned,” he said at an event that month.

Some Anthropic engineers are also worried about their jobs and are expressing genuine uncertainty about the future. In the study, one employee said it was “hard to say” what their job would look like in the next few years. Others were “optimistic in the short term”, but predicted that in the long run “AI will do everything”.

One employee said in the report: “I feel like I’m coming to work every day to fire myself.”

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The addition of AI also means that the social dynamics of the workplace are undergoing significant changes. Employees often turn to the cloud with questions instead of their peers, resulting in fewer opportunities for advice and collaboration.

a separate Report on AI in the workplaceThe study, released in January by McKinsey, found that nearly all employees (94%) are familiar with AI tools and the majority of employees (59%) describe themselves as optimistic about AI. Some of the top concerns cited by employees as risks associated with AI are cybersecurity, inaccuracy, and workforce displacement.

Anthropic recently conducted a research study of its own engineers to determine how AI is changing work – and found that AI tools are boosting productivity, while raising concerns about skills attrition, decreased human collaboration, and job loss.

Anthropic shared the findings of its August research study in a blog post Published on Tuesday. Startup, last rated $183 billion In September, surveyed its own 132 engineers, conducted 53 detailed interviews and studied internal usage data cloud codeIts coding tool. The study sought to better understand how the use of AI is changing work for a startup called Anthropic 3,000 employees,