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Mercor estimates 90% of US working hours fall outside what AI benchmarks cover
Mercor's Benchmark Map matched 29 AI benchmarks to 18,797 O*NET tasks. Only 208 of 923 occupations have a task with at least 5 benchmark prompts, and Mercor estimates 90% of American working hours get little or no coverage. It calls the results provisional because the benchmark list is incomplete.
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Mercormercor.com/research/labor-index/benchmark-map/Coverage · 1 article, oldest first
Friday, October 16, 2026
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90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks