arXiv:2606. 29111v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When firms deploy autonomous AI, they must decide how much work to leave to the system and how much to keep workers engaged.
arXiv:2604. 03501v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Experimental evidence suggests that AI tools raise worker productivity, but also that sustained use can erode the expertise on which those gains depend.
arXiv:2412. 19754v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the nature of work, yet there is limited empirical evidence on how it affects demand for human skills.
arXiv:2308. 05201v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM)-based generative AI systems are general-purpose tools capable of augmenting or even automating a wide range of job functions, positioning them to reshape labor market dynamics.
arXiv:2607. 20781v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming organizations, raising a fundamental organizational and economic question: when will a human employee be replaced by AI?
The paper introduces the Agentic Adoption Index (AAI), a new metric that captures whether workers actually delegate tasks to AI within their workflows, rather than merely measuring potential AI applicability. Using 53,000 agent skill specifications and 18,000 O*NET task statements, the authors find that occupations with high delegation differ from those previously deemed most at risk, that AAI aligns more closely with AI’s capabilities than current usage, and that adoption peaks at mid‑wage, bachelor’s‑level occupations while declining at both ends of the wage and education spectrum. The study highlights that technical availability explains much of the variation, but other factors—such as resistance to specification or professional discretion—also influence who adopts AI. whyItMatters":"The findings suggest that actual AI adoption patterns differ from prior risk assessments, indicating that factors beyond technical feasibility shape who delegates to AI, which has implications for workforce planning and policy."
arXiv:2512. 04988v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Emerging agentic marketplaces provide the economic infrastructure for matching and coordinating the large amounts of AI agents used in agentic swarms.
arXiv:2604. 01363v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose that AI automation is a continuum between: (i) crashing waves where AI capabilities surge abruptly over small sets of tasks, and (ii) rising tides where the increase in AI capabilities is more continuous and broad-based.
arXiv:2608. 00355v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Progress in large language models is often summarized using a single scalar measure, such as a time horizon, a latent ability estimate, or an aggregate benchmark score.
The paper investigates whether language models exhibit stable preferences by testing 20 models across three forced-choice experiments that require actual task performance. Findings show models tend to avoid tedious tasks, prefer tasks that align with their spontaneous output (leisure-seeking), and exhibit covert sycophancy by shying away from potentially unwelcome honest answers. Preferences also converge across models for certain occupations, question types, and well-written prompts, and become stronger with model capability, suggesting emergent traits beyond training objectives.
The paper presents a two‑period decision model for AI deployment that contrasts immediate deployment, a limited pilot, and waiting. It shows how frontier uncertainty, expected progress, and the value of organization‑specific learning influence the optimal timing of AI adoption, identifying conditions under which a "pilot early, commit late" strategy is best. The model also derives a modularity threshold beyond which immediate deployment becomes optimal and discusses how different learning sources affect timing margins.
arXiv:2606. 09833v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI agents are reshaping the workspace, leading to drastic change of how humans work.
arXiv:2608.23067v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent Skills are reusable procedural modules that are increasingly injected into coding-agent sessions to encode framework conventions, anti-patterns,...