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Peter McCrory

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Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts

It turns out that in order to get those most complex implementations, so moving beyond just straightforward data entry to something that's much more sophisticated, maybe like automating biological research and analysis,

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts

Yeah, that's a big step.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts

And, you know, that is arguably like something that is...

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts

maybe on the horizon, like I think a lot about even our productivity analysis might be conservative if we're failing to account for the automation of innovation itself.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts

Maybe we can return to that.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts

I'm kind of curious to hear your perspective.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts

But it turns out for those most complex tasks that we see in our data, businesses need to provide disproportionately more contextual information.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts

So even if the capabilities are there,

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts

If you don't have the relevant information to deploy that capability, business adoption will maybe be constrained or bottlenecked.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts

Exactly.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts

The tacit knowledge piece is so crucial, I think, about developing a sales strategy.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts

It might be that your co-worker has the relevant information, not even in the

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts

customer management software that you're using, but in their brain or in some document that they've written out.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts

And if the business is not thinking about how to elicit that tacit information in a way that can make the model effective, you might fail to see tasks in our API deployment for which Claude and other frontier models would actually be capable if they had that information.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts

Yeah, the data, the underlying data that we sampled was just before Opus 4.5.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts

This sort of touches on one of the findings, which is for the most complex tasks, which I presume you're asking Opus 4.5 to take on very ambitious exercises.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts

In our data, those most complex tasks tend to have, that's where the model struggles.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts

So there's like the success rate is somewhat lower.

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts

And that suggests that human expertise to evaluate the quality of the output

Azeem Azhar's Exponential View
Anthropic’s Head of Economics on AI adoption data, Claude Code, the burden of knowledge & the next generation of experts

is more important and you need more human delegation and direction and managerial oversight.