AI adoption is the single most important metric for measuring success in the AI economy right now, Liam Booth-Smith, Anthropic’s Head of Policy for Europe, Middle East, and Africa, makes in his DLD26 conversation with Diane Brady, Editorial Director at Fortune.
Citing Anthropic’s latest economic index, he notes that most people currently use artificial intelligence as an assistive tool. “As people worry about questions of job displacement or labor market dislocation, we’re still at a phase where people are collaborating and working with the tech as opposed to a significant escalation in automation.”
At the same time, usage remains heavily concentrated in developed economies and high‑skill professions, Booth-Smith notes – a trend he calls troubling: “If there’s a whole chunk of humanity that isn’t using the technology”, he says, “they’re not going to get the gain.”
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