The AI skills gap is already widening, report suggests

The AI behemoth Anthropic released a report this week about the widening “AI skills gap.” In it, the research suggests that a widening gap may be emerging between those who use AI frequently for work and those who don’t.  The report data shows that those with at least six months of experience with the company’s chatbot, Claude, have a higher success rate when collaborating with the system than those without. This can lead to an advantage in an ever-changing labor market landscape as AI becomes an integral part of the job market. In an interview with TechCrunch, Anthropic’s head of economics, Peter McCrory, spoke about how the report does not yet prove a broader shift towards automated employment. “There’s no material difference in unemployment rates” for those who use the company’s AI chatbot for the “most central task of their job in automated ways,” McCrory said, pointing to professions like technical writers, data entry clerks, and software engineers rather than those who work