Finance
Economist
AI Risk Score 2026
0%
You're in the grey zone.
Oxford Martin School (2013)
43%
theoretical risk
Anthropic Index (2026)
24.2%
observed today
Combined score: Oxford Martin School (Frey & Osborne, 2013) weighted 40% + Anthropic Economic Index (2026) weighted 60%. Oxford score = theoretical automation potential. Anthropic score = observed AI usage across millions of professional Claude conversations.
Sector: Finance
What AI will do
- Running econometric regressions
- Aggregating macro data into dashboards
- Producing standard literature reviews
What keeps you human
- Formulating original economic hypotheses
- Policy advice that requires political and social judgment
- Communicating economic insight to public audiences
Economic analysis is increasingly automated at the data processing level. But the intellectual core of economics — theory, interpretation, and policy judgment — requires the kind of broad contextual reasoning that remains well beyond current AI systems.
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