Experimental evidence on the productivity effects of generat...

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We examined the productivity effects of a generative artificial intelligence (AI) technology, the assistive chatbot ChatGPT, in the context of midlevel professional writing tasks. Inequality between workers decreased, and concern and excitement about AI temporarily rose.

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In a preregistered online experiment, we assigned occupation-specific, incentivized writing tasks to 453 college-educated professionals and randomly exposed half of them to ChatGPT.
Our results show that ChatGPT substantially raised productivity: The average time taken decreased by 40% and output quality rose by 18%.
Inequality between workers decreased, and concern and excitement about AI temporarily rose.

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This research advances how AI systems learn, reason, and solve problems — with direct implications for automation and scientific discovery.

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Category	🤖 Artificial Intelligence
Published	Jul 13, 2023
Journal	Science
Authors	Shakked Noy, Whitney Zhang
DOI	10.1126/science.adh2586
Citations	1,316
Source	OpenAlex

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Experimental evidence on the productivity effects of generative artificial intelligence

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