Mercor analysis finds 90% of US working hours lack AI benchmark coverage
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Mercor says about 90% of American working hours are spent on tasks with little or no coverage from existing AI benchmarks.
The company mapped 923 O*NET occupations against an initial list of 29 benchmarks. Coverage is concentrated in high-wage, AI-exposed occupations such as lawyers, while smaller middle-income knowledge jobs are undercovered.
Mercor describes the findings as provisional because the study relies on that initial benchmark list. The report proposes weighting model scores by O*NET task so that benchmark results better reflect the work people actually do.
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AIMercor 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.
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