Anthropic Research Reframes AI Displacement as a Skills Re-Pricing Event

The methodological move Anthropic makes here is consequential beyond the headline numbers. Prior AI labor impact studies worked from capability assessments — what can models theoretically do — and mapped those capabilities to occupational task descriptions. Massenkoff and McCrory's approach inverts that logic: they start from what Claude users are actually requesting and build exposure estimates from observed behavior. The result is a measure that tracks adoption, not potential.