Microsoft studied 40,000 AI agents. The useful ones are doing very ordinary work
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AI is most useful at work when it does not try to do your job
A lot of AI advice still starts with automation, as though the goal is to hand over as much work as possible. The more useful shift is much less dramatic. AI is becoming genuinely helpful in the work that surrounds the work: preparing, sorting, comparing, checking, researching and turning a pile of information into something you can actually act on.
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