The Uneven Diffusion of AI Adoption

19/09/2025 14 min

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Episode Synopsis

The "Anthropic Economic Index report" documents the rapid and uneven adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI), specifically using data from the company's Claude.ai consumer platform and its enterprise API. The report highlights that AI adoption is geographically concentrated in high-income regions and that the speed of adoption surpasses previous technologies like the internet. Analyzing usage patterns, the authors find that coding tasks dominate usage across both consumer and enterprise users, but enterprise use via API is highly automated (77%) compared to the more collaborative (augmentation) consumer use. The study introduces the Anthropic AI Usage Index (AUI) to compare per-capita AI use across regions and suggests that for businesses, model capability and economic value matter more than cost, while the availability of contextual information may be a crucial bottleneck for sophisticated deployment.Source:https://assets.anthropic.com/m/218c82b858610fac/original/Economic-Index.pdf