Anthropic Survey Shows Employees Expect AI to Handle 80% of Work by 2030

An internal survey at Anthropic reveals that most employees believe AI will handle at least 80% of their work by 2030, differing sharply from the broader US workforce where only about 5% share this view. This highlights a significant perceptual gap between leading AI developers and the general public regarding the speed of automation and economic transformation. Anthropic's chief economist suggests that internal shifts at AI labs may foreshadow broader societal changes by about a year and a half. Anthropic employees estimated that 95% of tasks required to develop a new AI model could be automated by 2030 and projected a 2030 US unemployment rate exceeding 12%, alongside an optimistic 17.1% GDP growth rate.