Source: International Business Times
Anthropic has published research warning that computer programmers, customer service workers and financial analysts face the highest displacement risk from AI, but the data tells a more complicated story than the headlines suggest. The paper, authored by economists Maxim Massenkoff and Peter McCrory and published on 5 March 2026, introduces a new framework for measuring AI's real-world impact on the labour market, one that deliberately separates theoretical capability from what AI is actually doing in professional settings today. The findings offer some reassurance alongside several sharp warnings, and they arrive at a moment when anxiety about AI-driven job losses has moved well beyond the pages of academic journals and into boardrooms, parliament buildings and household conversations.
