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Can AI agents do senior expert work? What the evidence says

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A new review of five recent studies, including OpenAI's GDPval, a field experiment with 758 BCG consultants, and a randomized trial of experienced developers, finds AI can match experts on some well-defined tasks but performs worse on open-ended judgment, and that users consistently overestimate how much it speeds them up.…

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