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Anthropic's Own Data Suggests AI Is Making Skilled Users More Skilled — and Leaving Others Behind
Anthropic's Economic Index, released with its latest model, contains a finding with uncomfortable long-term implications: sustained AI users achieve progressively better results over time as their ability to prompt, direct, and evaluate AI output compounds. The researchers flag this as a potential mechanism for widening economic inequality — the same technology that democratizes access to AI may simultaneously concentrate its benefits among those already skilled enough to use it well.