About half of Claude users say artificial intelligence can already take on 50 percent or more of their work tasks, according to a survey of roughly 9,700 users conducted by Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot. The findings, reported by The Decoder, offer a rare look at how the people using these tools daily actually rate them.
The survey also points to rising expectations. According to The Decoder, 26 percent of users expect AI to cover 60 to 90 percent of their work within the next 12 months. That is a striking jump from handling roughly half of tasks today to handling the large majority within a year.
The report notes a split in who feels most uneasy. Early-career workers worry the most about AI's growing role, according to The Decoder's account of the survey.
A few caveats are worth keeping in mind. This is a survey of Anthropic's own users, conducted by Anthropic itself, so the respondents are people already invested enough in the technology to use it regularly. Their views may not reflect the broader workforce, and "handling a task" is a self-reported judgment rather than a measured outcome.
Still, the numbers matter because they come from inside the working day, not from a lab benchmark or a vendor's marketing pitch. When the people doing the work say a tool already shoulders half their load, that signals how quickly AI is moving from novelty to everyday infrastructure, and it sharpens urgent questions about productivity, job security, and who benefits as these tools spread.