# AI studies reveal job shifts and gender gaps

> New AI studies show 80% of Anthropic staff expect AI to handle their work by 2030, while women are more skeptical about AI's impact.
- Title: AI studies reveal job shifts and gender gaps · Musically
- Summary: New AI studies show 80% of Anthropic staff expect AI to handle their work by 2030, while women are more skeptical about AI's impact. Anthropic staff expect…
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- Source: Musically — https://musically.com/2026/10/19/new-studies-explore-ai-expectations-jobs-impact-and-gender-gap
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- Topics: anthropic, ai expectations gap, job impact, gender gap, pew research center, ai usage, music, business, technology
## AI expectations gap
Anthropic staff expect ai to handle 80% of their work by 2030, while only 5% of us workers expect this.

> Anthropic staff expect capabilities to advance faster, ai to be used more widely and with less human involvement, and the time it saves on a task to be much larger
## AI hiring changes
Anthropic has reduced junior technical roles as ai agents take more hours, making human oversight the bottleneck.

> Anthropic has been hiring for a smaller share of junior technical positions. this occurred as hours worked by ai agents relative to employees rapidly expanded
## Gender gap in ai usage
Men use ai chatbots more regularly for work, while women are more skeptical about ai's impact on their lives.

> men report using chatbots more regularly than women and are more likely to turn to them for a variety of things, including work
## Key takeaway

Anthropic staff expect AI to do 80% of their work by 2030, and women use AI less frequently than men for practical tasks.