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Ask Claude about the Anthropic Economic Index

Anthropic News · 2026-07-22

Anthropic launches a Claude connector for the Anthropic Economic Index, enabling anyone on claude.ai to query real AI-usage-in-economy data through conversational questions with no installation required.

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Topics: anthropic-economic-indexai-labor-marketclaude-connectorsai-economic-impact

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  • The Anthropic Economic Index connector lets users ask Claude natural-language questions about AI's role in the economy and receive answers grounded in real Index data.
  • The connector requires no installation and works with any Claude model in any claude.ai conversation.
  • The Index measures patterns in Claude usage rather than the broader labor market, and Claude will surface that limitation when users explore the data.
  • The underlying datasets remain freely available on Anthropic's website alongside the new connector.

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People have hard questions about AI and work: which jobs will change, which tasks are being automated, and what it means for their own field.
The Index reflects patterns in Claude usage rather than the labor market as a whole, and Claude will point you back to the source data and its limitations as you explore.