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. Insights Ai agents
Task Expansion with Generative AI: The Case of Apprenticeships Researchers: Hanna Brosch, Christina Langer, Philipp Lergetporer, Sandra Müller, Harald Pfeifer, Nele Tschöpe project
What is Generative AI Worth? Authors: Erik Brynjolfsson, Avinash Collis, Felix Eggers, Sophia Kazinnik, David Nguyen publication New measures of the economy
How Do AI Agents Spend Your Money? Analyzing and Predicting Token Consumption in Agentic Coding Tasks Authors: Longju Bai et al. publication Ai agents
The Enterprise AI Playbook: Lessons from 51 Successful Developments Authors: Elisa Pereira, Alvin W. Graylin, Erik Brynjolfsson publication
Augmenting Survey Data with Generative AI: An Application to Economic Research Authors: Erik Brynjolfsson, José Ramón Enríquez, Sophia Kazinnik, David Nguyen publication
The Future of Personal AI: Portable and Persistent Personal Memory through a Unified Human Context Protocol publication Ai agents
Minimum Wages and Rise of the Robots Authors: Erik Brynjolfsson, J. Frank Li, Javier Miranda, Robert Seamans, Andrew Wang publication Economics of transformative ai
MemoryArena: Benchmarking Agent Memory in Interdependent Multi-Session Agentic Tasks Authors: Zexue He et al. publication Ai agents
Canaries, Interest Rates, and Timing: More on the Recent Drivers of Employment Changes for Young Workers In February 2026, the authors of "Canaries in the Coal Mine?" published an update addressing the response to their paper. Researchers: Erik Brynjolfsson, Bharat Chandar, Ruyu Chen Insights Economics of transformative ai
Big Changes in the World: Davos 2026 Researcher: Sandy Pentland Insights Ai agents Digital platforms and society Economics of transformative ai New measures of the economy
