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David Autor, Technology & Society Visiting Fellow, and Tanya Rodchenko, Principal, AI & Economy In a three-month randomized controlled trial with practicing patent attorneys, we found that, while routinely using AI lifts work quality across the board, its effects on on-the-job learning depend on seniority: senior lawyers who used AI for 90 days demonstrate stronger judgment than those who didn’t, whereas junior lawyers show no average skill gain, their scores splitting into more strong scores and more low scores.
Quick links Judgment is what sets senior professionals apart from their junior peers.
Building judgment requires thousands of hours learning on the job, usually through tedious but formative engagement with relatively routine work, often under guided supervision by experienced workers.
But AI is already changing how on-the-job learning works.
On the one hand, empirical studies in radiology , business problem-solving , job-seeker writing , and legal education show that when AI tools are thoughtfully embedded into training workflows, less-experienced workers can improve their independent performance.
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