Australians are embracing Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude for business tasks at one of the highest rates in the world.
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New data from US-based Anthropic shows Australia now ranks first globally for Claude usage on a population-adjusted basis.
The new findings come from Anthropic’s sixth Economic Index. This report analyses anonymised Claude conversations to track how people are adopting AI around the world.
According to the report, Australians use Claude more than six times as much as would be expected based on the country’s population.
Rounding out the top 10 were Singapore, Switzerland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Canada, Norway, Iceland, Malta, and France. The United States was placed 12th on the list.
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While homework is the biggest use case in Australia, business tasks dominate much of the rest of the rankings.
Business operations is Australia’s second most common use for Claude, accounting for 5.7% of conversations.
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Other leading business-adjacent use cases include self-presentation writing (4.6%), promotional writing (4.4%), workplace writing (4.1%), and starting a business (3.6%).
Together, those categories account for almost a quarter of Australia’s most common uses for Claude. The report also suggests Australian workers are using AI to support their work rather than replace themselves.
According to Anthropic, 54.5% of Australian Claude usage falls into its ‘augmentation’ category. This means that users remain actively involved while using AI as a collaborator. This is above the global average of 51.4%.
This news coincides with new findings from Employment Hero that reveal one in three Australian workers are secretly using AI in the workplace.