AnalysisOpinion / analysisAgents & Tool Use · Business, Funding & Industry · Applications2 sources · Oct 18, 2026

Working at the frontier shapes expectations for the future

We’re sharing two reports: the first covers how AI is changing employment inside Anthropic, and the second looks at the gap between how the public and Anthropic employees expect AI to affect work and the economy.

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Key points

  • Working at the frontier shapes expectations for the future
  • Anthropic staff and US workers don’t seem to have different theories about how AI affects jobs.
  • Anthropic is a company at the frontier of AI adoption, and that adoption has changed the way we hire.
  • Anthropic is hiring fewer and fewer junior staff in technical roles.

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