Mercor finds 90% of US working hours fall outside AI benchmark coverage

Mercor reports that about 90% of American working hours are spent on tasks with little or no coverage from existing AI benchmarks.

Coverage is concentrated in high-wage, AI-exposed occupations such as lawyers, while smaller middle-income knowledge jobs are undercovered.

The findings are provisional because the study uses an initial list of 29 benchmarks, and the report proposes weighting model scores by O*NET task.