Washington Post – no paywall: “…People working with AI tend to outperform those without it on tasks well-suited for AI, such as drafting text, synthesizing research and generating ideas. In controlled experiments, researchers have seen massive improvements — at least in the short term. In a 2026 peer-reviewed paper in Organization Science, Ethan Mollick at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his colleagues reported what happened when they gave AI assistance to hundreds of consultants at Boston Consulting Group. Half had access to ChatGPT-maker OpenAI’s best available AI model at the time of the study, GPT-4, and half did not. People using AI completed 12 percent more tasks than those without and on average completed them 25 percent faster. For tasks within AI’s capabilities, the quality was ranked significantly higher than for tasks completed by humans alone. The largest gains accrued to the lowest performers. (The Washington Post has a content partnership with OpenAI.)…”