Balam Labs releases Agent Delegability Index
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Balam Labs releases the Agent Delegability Index v2026.1, rating 18,796 occupational tasks one by one and aggregating them into 433 occupations and 146 countries. The results show that in 2026, 35.2% of global employment task time can be at least partially delegated to AI agents, while only 2.5% can be fully handed over. The index is released together with a paper, a report, and a dataset, with data hosted on Zenodo; access requires no key and has no rate limits, and each occupation and each country has its own static file.
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Balam Labs' Agent Delegability Index v2026.1 rates 18,796 occupational task statements, 433 occupations and 146 countries, finding that 35.2% of task time in world employment is at least partly delegable to AI agents in 2026, while only 2.5% can be handed over in full. Office work is the most delegable major group (managers 81.8%, clerical support 78.3%) and elementary occupations the least (12.3%), with each log point of GDP per capita adding 7.23 percentage points of delegable work. Full delegation peaks for tasks of about 11.8 minutes, and delegability correlates with observed AI use across 101 countries (r 0.86).
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