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How are AI agents spending your tokens?

A new study from researchers at the Lab finds that the cost of having AI agents automate your tasks for you may be higher than you think, and examines the challenge of predicting what it will cost for an agent to automate tasks for you.

TIME · January 2, 2026

AI Changed Work Forever in 2025

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Stanford Digital Economy Lab · February 17, 2025

Democratizing statistics: How AI can empower everyone (without causing disasters)

The Narrow Window · February 9, 2025

AI & Unemployment with Dr. Morgan Frank

The World · January 27, 2025

DeepSeek’s arrival sparks AI’s ‘Sputnik moment’

Stanford Digital Economy Lab · December 5, 2024

American democracy is soul-searching. An AI-era version of the Federalist Papers may be the answer

Stanford Digital Economy Lab · November 22, 2024

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