Authors:Yuetai Li, Yichen Feng, Zhangchen Xu, Zixian Ma, Kaiyuan Zheng, Fengqing Jiang, Xinghua Sun, Rulin Shao, Zichen Chen, Yue Huang, Xinyang Han, Brian Lee, Kayla Xu, Shenglai Zeng, Hang Hua, Xiangliang Zhang, Basel Alomair, Ranjay Krishna, Luke Zettlemoyer, Pang Wei Koh, Bhaskar Ramasubramanian, Luyao Niu, Xiang Yue, Radha Poovendran
Abstract:Current benchmarks for occupational AI agents are scoped primarily by economic values, telling a replacement story. We introduce JobBench, which evaluates AI agents on the workflows that experts identify as high-priority for delegation, empowering humans based on their needs instead of replacing them with GDP value. JobBench covers 130 agentic tasks across 35 occupations. Each task is packaged as a workspace of heterogeneous reference files, requiring the agent to reason through the cluttered information streams of real professional work. Outputs are graded by a fact-anchored chain of rubrics, averaging 35.6 binary criteria per task. We evaluate 36 models; the strongest, Claude Opus~4.7 under Claude Code, reaches only 45.9 %. We hope JobBench shifts the community's target labour-market effect from replacement to enhancement: building agents that do what humans actually want delegated, not only what is most economically valuable.
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