Is AI Really Taking All the Jobs? Anthropic's Co-Founder Just Dropped the Numbers 👀

Welcome to another edition of Horizon AI,

In today's issue, we take a look at a candid conversation between Nick Gillespie and Anthropic co-founder Jack Clark, exploring the volatile intersection of frontier AI development, government regulation, and the shifting labor market.

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Here's what's new today in the Horizon AI

• Chart of the week: The World’s Most Valuable Companies in 2026

• Claude Users Say AI Can Already Do Half or More of Their Work

• AI Findings/Resources

• AI tools to check out

• Video of the week

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Chart of the week

The World’s Most Valuable Companies in 2026

• This graphic visualizes the world's 50 largest companies by market capitalization using June 2026 data from CompaniesMarketCap.com.

• Tech companies make up nearly half (22) of the world's 50 most valuable companies, with AI infrastructure and semiconductors driving much of their growth.

• While U.S. companies dominate the list, TSMC is the most valuable non-U.S. firm and Saudi Aramco remains the world's top energy company.

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AI News

ANTHROPIC

Claude Users Say AI Can Already Do Half or More of Their Work

A new Anthropic survey of nearly 9,700 Claude users suggests many people already rely on AI for a significant portion of their work and expect that number to grow rapidly over the next year.

Details:

• Around 33% of respondents said AI can handle 30 to 60% of their work tasks, while 14% put that figure at 60 to 90%, and about 4% believe Claude could already do their entire job.

• Looking ahead, about 26% expect AI to take over the majority of their work within the next 12 months.

• Some of the most common work-related uses include writing marketing content, drafting blog posts and articles, and querying databases through Claude's Artifacts feature.

• Anthropic found that expectations for AI's progress were remarkably consistent across different professions, experience levels, and regions, suggesting users broadly expect rapid improvements.

• While early-career professionals expressed the greatest concern about job security, frequent Claude users were generally more optimistic, saying AI could increase the value of their skills rather than replace them.

On a separate note, Anthropic announced that the US government has approved the redeployment of Claude Mythos 5, which can now be used again by US organizations that operate and protect critical infrastructure. Anthropic employees who are not US nationals and members of approved organizations who are not US nationals are also cleared to use Mythos 5 while the company continues working with the government to expand access and make Fable 5 broadly available again.

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AI Findings/Resources

👀 What is GLM-5.2? Another open-source Chinese AI model has Silicon Valley's attention

🦾 AI was supposed to kill engineering jobs, but new data suggests they’re the most resilient

⌛ How AI chatbots would be sold at Best Buy in the early 2000s

🔍 Notion surveyed 6,000 professionals across 10 markets to map where AI at work actually is

💀 “Mark Zuckerberg is realizing there's a limit to ruthless efficiency”

AI Tools to check out

⭐ Presentr Analyze: Transcribe, caption, translate, repair, and extract text from any media.

📈 Honen: Turn team knowledge into interactive AI-led courses in seconds.

👉 Slashspace: Canvas first AI experience for sustained, complex work.

🦾 Folio AI: Claude for Powerpoint, on steroids.

✅ Airtable: an AI-native platform that turns your data into dynamic interfaces, automations, and intelligent agents.

Video of the week

Is AI Really Taking All the Jobs? Anthropic Co-Founder Reveals the Data

Jack Clark shares a grounded, inside look at how the technology is structurally redefining workforce talent, why "senior intuition" is suddenly replacing entry-level roles, and how the rapid acceleration toward recursive self-improvement could trigger unprecedented macroeconomic shocks that no government is prepared to handle.

The "Returns on Intuition" Shift: 

He explains that Anthropic’s internal hiring needs have shifted away from junior or entry-level positions [52:53]. Because advanced models like Claude can now autonomously handle the scaling, execution, and heavy lifting of research experiments, companies prioritize highly experienced professionals whose advanced intuition and expertise can direct the AI effectively.

The Macroeconomic Paradox: 

When AI multiplies the output of elite experts while simultaneously automating entry-level positions, it breaks traditional economic patterns. Clark warns that this could create a historically unprecedented scenario: an economy experiencing far above-trend GDP growth paired with a sharp spike in unemployment typically only seen during deep recessions [56:46].

The "Claude Corps" Pedagogical Experiment: 

To counteract the softening job market for recent graduates, Anthropic created an initiative called Claude Corps. They are paying to embed 1,000 recent college graduates into various non-profit organizations to teach them practical AI implementation skills, creating an alternative training ground for skill development.

Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI): 

Clark anticipates that by late 2028, AI systems will actively write code and design architectures to build their own successive generations (e.g., Claude 10 building Claude 11) without human intervention [37:21]. This shifts progress from a linear scale to an exponential compression where years of advancement happen in a matter of months.

Civilian Tech vs. National Security Conflict:

Clark details the messy friction occurring between frontier AI labs and government administrations. Because AI developed as a civilian commercial product can suddenly manifest elite cybersecurity or biological capabilities, governments are struggling to define policy frameworks that regulate national security risks without stifling commercial export and economic growth.

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