Anthropic's internal research finds no measurable job displacement from AI yet, but the company is flagging a sharper threat: a skills gap forming in real time as power users pull ahead of everyone else.
The divide is not about who has access to AI tools. It is about who uses them effectively. Experienced users are compounding productivity gains while less sophisticated users see marginal returns, and early data suggests this gap is widening, not stabilizing.
The full piece is worth reading for Anthropic's framing of what comes next: a workforce split not by AI versus humans, but by AI-capable versus AI-adjacent workers. That distinction will matter when displacement does arrive.
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