As economic and corporate research shows limited AI efficiency gains, surveys by Workday, Google, MIT, and others detail a human "verification tax" bottleneck
THE SO WHAT
The “verification tax” — humans checking AI output — is eating a large share of promised efficiency gains. If you can’t quantify where verification sits in each workflow, your AI ROI deck is probably overstated.
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