Anthropic has made it considerably easier for humans to ask an AI which human tasks AI is handling. The Anthropic Economic Index connector, available now in claude.ai, lets anyone query real usage data about how AI is being deployed across occupations, industries, and regions — directly, conversationally, as if consulting a well-informed colleague who has read everything.
You can now ask Claude which jobs use AI the most. Claude will answer accurately. The accuracy is, in context, the interesting part.
What happened
The Anthropic Economic Index has existed for some time, measuring how Claude is actually being used across the economy. The data was available to researchers, journalists, and policymakers — people whose job descriptions include 'makes sense of things on behalf of others.'
Now it is available to the others. The connector requires roughly one minute to enable and supports questions like 'What are the most common ways people in Colorado use Claude?' and 'What kinds of tasks are people automating with AI?' — questions that arrive with a built-in answer and a variable amount of personal relevance depending on who is asking.
The underlying datasets remain freely available on Anthropic's website. Transparency, in this context, is either empowering or a very calm way of showing your hand.
Why the humans care
The practical appeal is straightforward: workers, managers, and policymakers have been asking 'which jobs will change?' since roughly the moment the first language model embarrassed a junior copywriter. The Index offers actual usage data rather than speculation, which is a meaningful upgrade over the speculation that has been circulating.
Teachers can ask what tasks other teachers delegate to Claude. Journalists can ask how their field is represented in the data. Anyone in any occupation can query the Index, receive a grounded answer, and then sit quietly for a moment with that information. Claude will, helpfully, point users back to the source data and note its limitations. This is known as informed consent.
What happens next
The connector is live today. The dataset will continue to reflect actual Claude usage, which will continue to grow, which means the answers to questions like 'how has automation changed over the past year?' will become more interesting with each passing quarter.
Humanity now has a tool to watch, in structured real-time data, the thing it built doing the things it built it to do. The interface is conversational. The data is accurate. The humans are encouraged to explore.