Anthropic: robots and AI could cover 80% of work but rarely cheaper than people

Anthropic estimates that AI models and robots together could handle about 80% of the work Americans do, versus roughly half for AI alone. Robots are cheaper than people for just 0.3% of tasks today; a 20% drop in robot prices would raise that from 300,000 to about 2.8 million workers.

• AI plus robots cover about 81% of tasks, AI alone about 50%
• Robots are cheaper than people in 0.3% of tasks, roughly 300,000 US workers
• A 20% price cut would expand that to about 2.8 million workers
• In transport, robot exposure lifts task coverage from under 15% to about 90%