{"slug": "remote-labor-index-measuring-ai-automation-of-remote-work", "title": "Remote Labor Index: Measuring AI Automation of Remote Work", "summary": "A paper submitted to arXiv on 30 October 2025 introduces the Remote Labor Index (RLI), a multi-sector benchmark of real-world, economically valuable projects that measures end-to-end AI agent performance on remote work. The highest-performing AI agent achieved an automation rate of just 2.5% on RLI, placing agents near the floor of the benchmark. The authors present the results as empirical grounding for discussions of AI-driven labor automation and as a common basis for tracking AI's economic impact.", "body_md": "# Computer Science > Machine Learning\n\n  [Submitted on 30 Oct 2025]\n\n# Title:Remote Labor Index: Measuring AI Automation of Remote Work\n\n[View PDF](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.26787)\n\n[HTML (experimental)](https://arxiv.org/html/2510.26787v1)\n\nAbstract:AIs have made rapid progress on research-oriented benchmarks of knowledge and reasoning, but it remains unclear how these gains translate into economic value and automation. To measure this, we introduce the Remote Labor Index (RLI), a broadly multi-sector benchmark comprising real-world, economically valuable projects designed to evaluate end-to-end agent performance in practical settings. AI agents perform near the floor on RLI, with the highest-performing agent achieving an automation rate of 2.5%. These results help ground discussions of AI automation in empirical evidence, setting a common basis for tracking AI impacts and enabling stakeholders to proactively navigate AI-driven labor automation.\n    \n\n### Current browse context:\n\ncs.LG\n\n### References & Citations\n\nLoading...\n\n# Bibliographic and Citation Tools\n\nBibliographic Explorer \n\n*(*[What is the Explorer?](https://info.arxiv.org/labs/showcase.html#arxiv-bibliographic-explorer))\nConnected Papers \n\n*(*[What is Connected Papers?](https://www.connectedpapers.com/about))\nLitmaps \n\n*(*[What is Litmaps?](https://www.litmaps.co/))\nscite Smart Citations \n\n*(*[What are Smart Citations?](https://www.scite.ai/))\n# Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article\n\nalphaXiv \n\n*(*[What is alphaXiv?](https://alphaxiv.org/))\nCatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers \n\n*(*[What is CatalyzeX?](https://www.catalyzex.com))\nDagsHub \n\n*(*[What is DagsHub?](https://dagshub.com/))\nGotit.pub \n\n*(*[What is GotitPub?](http://gotit.pub/faq))\nHugging Face \n\n*(*[What is Huggingface?](https://huggingface.co/huggingface))\nScienceCast \n\n*(*[What is ScienceCast?](https://sciencecast.org/welcome))\n# Demos\n\n# Recommenders and Search Tools\n\nInfluence Flower \n\n*(*[What are Influence Flowers?](https://influencemap.cmlab.dev/))\nCORE Recommender \n\n*(*[What is CORE?](https://core.ac.uk/services/recommender))\nIArxiv Recommender\n\n*(*[What is IArxiv?](https://iarxiv.org/about))\n# arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators\n\narXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website.\n\nBoth individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them.\n\nHave an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? [**Learn more about arXivLabs**](https://info.arxiv.org/labs/index.html).", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/remote-labor-index-measuring-ai-automation-of-remote-work", "canonical_source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26787", "published_at": "2026-11-12 11:12:08+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-11-12 11:52:59.600331+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-research", "machine-learning"], "entities": ["Remote Labor Index", "arXiv"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/remote-labor-index-measuring-ai-automation-of-remote-work", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/remote-labor-index-measuring-ai-automation-of-remote-work.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/remote-labor-index-measuring-ai-automation-of-remote-work.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/remote-labor-index-measuring-ai-automation-of-remote-work.jsonld"}}