Marketplace Tech · Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Peter McCree highlighted that AI adoption, specifically through Claude, is not representative of the general US labor market. Usage is concentrated in computer and mathematical occupations, and managerial and technical roles, far exceeding their representation in the overall workforce. The diffusion of AI technology is also geographically concentrated, with a few states showing disproportionately high adoption rates.
“I would point to this uneven adoption along two margins. One is exactly as you point to, in terms of how Claude usage compares to the composition of the US labor market. Computer and mathematical occupations, you can hear you can contemplate, um, have, um, for in, for in, for in conversations on our platform are for those types of activities. And in the survey that we included in the report, about 30% of our respondents report being in those types of occupations, but for the US labor market, only 4% of the US labor market is in these roles.”
“More generally, we see our users, based on the survey, the ones who took the survey, as being represented in more managerial roles, in more technical roles, in knowledge domains, relative to, uh, jobs that would require physically interacting with the real world.”
“In the US, we see that a small number of states represent a disproportionate share of overall usage within the US. New York, California, Washington DC actually has the highest rate of adoption per capita among all the rest of the states within the US.”