Research: Why Some Junior Employees Work Well with AI

Research: Why Some Junior Employees Work Well with AI—and Others Don’t

by Ashish Agarwal, Anitesh Barua, Anu Puvvada, Fangchen Song and Wen Wen

Entry-level employees are on the front lines of a rapid shift in knowledge work. These jobs used to be full of tasks that created an onramp into an industry and helped junior employees start building expertise. But now, many of these tasks are at risk of being delegated to AI-powered workflows, which are increasingly capable of handling analytical, information-intensive assignments. And as AI continues to improve, research has shown it is quickly resetting the baseline, with the standard for acceptable output rising as models improve.