Study of 207,000 Claude sessions reveals AI use concentrated in computer science and data analysis; researchers predict autonomous AI research projects by 2030, with potential to double output in some fields if widely adopted.

AI for scientific discovery: How researchers use Claude

Johannes Hermle*, Ben Jones*, Lukas Althoff*, Ryan Heller, Thomas Lyttelton, Carolyn Stein, Nathan Wilmers, Maxim Massenkoff, Peter McCrory*Lead authors of the reportSummaryWhat we measure. AI could speed up scientific discovery, but by how much depends on what AI can do and how scientists use it. Using privacy-preserving methods, we study 207,000 Claude and Claude Code research sessions to understand how Claude is used across scientific fields and research tasks. We are conducting this research...