Anthropic publishes research report on how scientists use Claude
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Anthropic published a research report analyzing, with privacy-preserving methods, 207,049 Claude and Claude Code research sessions on consumer plans between August 2 and September 30, 2026, examining how Claude is used in scientific fields and research tasks. The report says data analysis is the most common use: 33.7% of Claude sessions and 48.1% of Claude Code sessions, followed closely by writing. Results were released only in aggregate form, and only categories meeting a minimum threshold of distinct accounts were reported.
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Anthropic researchers used privacy-preserving classifiers to label 207,049 Claude and Claude Code research sessions (August 2–September 30, 2026) by field and task, finding heavier use in formal sciences like computer science, mathematics, and statistics than in health and lab-based physical sciences, with data analysis and writing dominating. Claude use rises with a constructed "theoretical AI capability" score, which correlates with reinforcement-learning suitability and cognitive work and negatively with physical, interpersonal, or regulated work. Scenario modeling suggests current capabilities could double research output in some fields, and full automation of non-physical work could raise output up to 15-fold in fields like computer science and statistics, versus three- or fourfold in bench sciences.
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