Anthropic publishes an economic index showing how people are using AI today.

Judged as of 2026-05-09. True: by that date Anthropic was publishing an Economic Index, a recurring report or dataset that shows how people use AI (Claude), for example the Anthropic Economic Index first published in February 2025, with later updates. Mostly true: it was published but only once, or irregularly, so that 'publishes' slightly overstates how often it appears. Mixed: there are related economic reports that are not actually an index of AI usage. Mostly false: an index was announced but not released by that date. False: the evidence shows Anthropic had published no such index.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Introducing the Anthropic Economic Index Anthropic · 10 February 2025 Own record

   “We'll regularly release the results and the associated datasets as part of the Anthropic Economic Index.”

2. E2 Economic Index: Uneven AI adoption Anthropic · 15 September 2025 Own record

   “This third iteration of the Anthropic Economic Index report captures AI adoption at a critical juncture.”

3. E3 Anthropic Economic Index report: Cadences Anthropic · 26 June 2026 Own record

   “in contrast to the seven-day samples each previous Economic Index report drew on.”

E1 is Anthropic's February 2025 launch post for the Anthropic Economic Index. It says results and associated datasets will be released regularly as part of the Index [E1]. E2, from September 2025, calls itself the "third iteration of the Anthropic Economic Index report", so the index had come out several times well before 2026-05-09. E3, a June 2026 report, mentions "each previous Economic Index report", which supports that the index is recurring. All of these sources are Anthropic's own published reports, not independent coverage, but those reports are the deliverables themselves, and they show the index was a recurring publication.