Anthropic study flags AI's growing labour divide; Indians are using Claude for coding and CV building: Study
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A new study by Anthropic, the parent company of the Claude chatbot, has found that the people who stand to lose the most from AI disruption are currently also its biggest beneficiaries. In its latest Economic Index report, which studied Claude usage in February 2026, Anthropic found that more experienced users engage with the AI more collaboratively, bring more complex tasks to it, and achieve greater success, a pattern the company attributes to learning-by-doing: the longer you use the tool, the better you get at harnessing it.
The finding carries a pointed implication for labour markets. Those early, experienced adopters are disproportionately high-skill, technical workers; the same cohort economists already flag as most exposed to AI-driven job disruption. Anthropic's report identifies this as a channel through which skill-biased technological change may already be unfolding: early adopters with high-skill tasks have more successful interactions with Claude than later, less technical users. In other words, AI is widening the gap between workers who know how to use it and those still catching up—and that gap may prove consequential long before the technology matures.
How does India use Claude
India, which ranks 98 out of 116 countries where Anthropic sees usage of Claude has a usage of 0.28x on the usage index, less than the anticipated 1x. The most frequently use cases of Claude is to develop, debug, and modify websites and web applications, assist with academic assignments and coursework across multiple disciplines and, develop and manage business software applications across multiple industries.
Here’s a list of how India uses Claude:
Create marketing content, advertising campaigns, and SEO materials with platform optimization (3.0%)
Debug, fix, and refactor code across multiple languages and systems (2.5%)
Develop comprehensive business strategy documents and corporate planning materials (2.4%)
Help with programming, software development, and coding across multiple languages (2.4%)
Create and optimize social media content and marketing strategies (2.4%)
Create educational materials and explain concepts across academic subjects (2.2%)
Indians use Claude more heavily for a distinct cluster of tasks compared to global averages. Web and application development is nearly twice as common, and so is CV writing and job application prep — both running 1.8 to 1.9 times the global rate. Coding assistance is 1.6 times above the norm, while design-related work—graphic design, UI/UX, and branding—comes in at 1.5 times. Debugging and code refactoring also sees elevated usage, at 1.4 times the global average.