arXiv AI By Michael Caosun, Sinan Aral

The Augmentation Trap: AI Productivity and the Cost of Cognitive Offloading

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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.

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Jul 9

The Harness Effect: How Orchestration Design Sets the Token Economics of Enterprise Agentic AI

arXiv:2607. 06906v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agentic AI development today runs on token maxing: buying capability with tokens -- longer reasoning traces, more turns, wider tool payloads, bigger replayed contexts -- so tokens per task grow faster than task value.

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