What did Anthropic's robot exposure research estimate?
The study estimates 74 percent physical task exposure and 34 percent of US working hours, largely in constrained settings, while estimating only 0.3 percent of job tasks as cost-competitive under current assumptions. These are distinct denominators and conditional estimates, not a forecast of jobs disappearing.
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