Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice \ Anthropic
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Societal Impacts Measuring AI agent autonomy in practice Feb 18, 2026 AI agents are here, and already they’re being deployed across contexts that vary widely in consequence, from email triage to cyber espionage . Understanding this spectrum is critical for deploying AI safely, yet we know surprisingly little about how people actually use agents in the real world. We analyzed millions of human-agent interactions across both Claude Code and our public API using our privacy-preserving tool , to ask: How much autonomy do people grant agents? How does that change as people gain experience? Which do
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