Mercor releases open-source TaskNet: 79 missing tasks worth ~$140B a year in wages
Diyi_Yang · x · 2026-10-28
Mercor, with researchers from Stanford, the ONET Resource Center and NBER, released TaskNet, an open-source task catalog built on the Department of Labor's ONET taxonomy and updated for how AI is changing work. The rationale: economists use ONET to estimate which jobs AI will transform, so incomplete lists mean incomplete estimates. Finding: workers in six occupations perform 79 tasks the official taxonomy hasn't added — work worth about $140B a year in wages. TaskNet turns workers' experience into task data usable for workforce policy and training.
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