Remote Labor Index: Measuring AI Automation of Remote Work

The authors introduce the Remote Labor Index (RLI), a multi-sector benchmark of real-world, economically valuable projects designed to evaluate end-to-end AI 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%. The authors state these results help ground discussions of AI automation in empirical evidence and provide a common basis for tracking AI impacts.