Your pesky remote freelancers demanding more money as inflation soars? You could try replacing them with AI agents instead — but it probably won’t work out well.

New research highlighted by Wired shows how these AI models designed to automate tasks — if not entire jobs — turn out to be incredibly unproductive compared to the humans they’re replacing.

Conducted by researchers at the nonprofit Center for AI Safety (CAIS) and the massive data annotation firm Scale AI, whose army of freelancers performs much of the grunt work underpinning the AI industry, the tests involved giving six leading AI agents various simulated freelance tasks.

The outcome of those tests, detailed in a new paper, was damning. Not a single AI agent was able to perform more than 3 percent of the work, making just $1,

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