“Is AI coming for my job?” is usually answered with vibes — a scary headline, a confident stranger on LinkedIn, your own worst 2am guess. This week, Anthropic made it answerable with data instead.
They’ve shipped a connector that opens the Anthropic Economic Index — their measure of how AI is actually being used across the economy — directly inside Claude. There’s nothing to install: open the connectors menu in claude.ai, enable it, and ask questions the way you’d ask a colleague. Which occupations use AI the most? What do teachers actually use it for? What kinds of tasks are people automating, and how has that changed over the past year? You get answers grounded in the data, and you can ask it to show you the numbers behind any claim.
The move that matters isn’t the connector. It’s the habit it rewards. Most people meet a question like this by absorbing someone else’s conclusion. The better move — the one that survives contact with reality — is to go and interrogate the source yourself, then read what it doesn’t cover. Anthropic is upfront that the Index reflects patterns in Claude usage, not the whole labour market, and Claude will point you back to that caveat as you dig.
That’s the actual skill worth building: not memorising which jobs are “safe,” but knowing how to point an AI at a real dataset and pull a grounded answer out of it.
Replace the vibe with a query. Then check what the query can’t see.