AI Screening Can Increase Marginal Product of Labor, Study Shows
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-08-11
Researchers highlight that AI can increase the marginal product of labor even when it reduces the set of problems humans are needed for. By using AI to screen out irrelevant information, we optimally focus human time and energy, which are significantly more expensive than compute.
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