Mercor, Stanford and NBER launch TaskNet, an open-source task catalog updating O*NET for the AI era
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-10-28
Mercor announced TaskNet, an open-source task catalog built with Stanford, the ONET Resource Center and NBER to update the US Labor Department's occupational taxonomy for AI-driven job change. Workers in six occupations perform 79 tasks ONET hasn't added yet, worth roughly $140B a year in wages.
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