Estimating AI productivity gains
Economic Research Estimating AI productivity gains from Claude conversations Nov 25, 2025 Read as a PDF Overview What do real conversations with Claude tell us about the effects of AI on labor…
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Claude is an AI assistant developed by Anthropic that uses large language models to generate text and support conversational tasks.
We sampled 1 million claude.ai conversations from March and April 2026 and filtered for unique users to get roughly 639,000 conversations. We then used a classifier to identify personal guidance, which we defined as conversations where people ask what they specifically should do in their personal lives—for example, questions that start with "Should I…?" or "What do I do about…?". We excluded questions that seek objective information or opinions in general terms. We categorized these roughly 38,000 conversations into nine domains, drawing from previous research on AI and guidance-giving: relati
How people ask Claude for personal guidanceEconomic Research Estimating AI productivity gains from Claude conversations Nov 25, 2025 Read as a PDF Overview What do real conversations with Claude tell us about the effects of AI on labor…
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