By @AnthropicAI
Publication Date: 2026-02-23 12:00:00
People are integrating AI tools into their everyday lives at a pace that would have been difficult to predict even a year ago. But adoption alone doesn’t tell us much about the impact of these tools. Another, equally important question is: If AI becomes part of everyday life, will people develop the skills to use it well?
Previous Anthropic Education Reports have examined how university students and educators use Claude. We have found that students use it to create reports and analyze lab results. Educators use it to create teaching materials and automate routine work. But we know that any A person who uses AI is likely to improve their work. We wanted to explore this further and understand how people who use AI develop “confident” skills in using this technology over time.
In this report we start by answering this question. Using a large sample of anonymized conversations, we track the presence or absence of a taxonomy of behaviors that we use to represent AI fluency.
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