Authors: Ali Merali
Year: 2025
Published in: ArXiv
Institution: Yale University
Research Area: LLM-Assisted Economic Productivity, Consulting, Data Analysis
Discipline: Economics, Artificial Intelligence
The paper identifies scaling laws linking LLM training compute to professional productivity gains, showing an 8% annual reduction in task time influenced by both compute and algorithmic advances, but with uneven impacts across task types.
Methods: A preregistered experiment involving professional tasks completed by consultants, data analysts, and managers using 13 different LLMs.
Key Findings: Economic productivity impacts of LLMs in professional settings, time savings across task categories, and contribution of compute versus algorithmic progress.
Citations: 1
Sample Size: 500