The Commonplace: Does generative AI narrow education-based productivity…
causal evidence that generative AI can raise output and compress dispersion, with an… The Commonplace Weekly Research Digest · August 10, 2026 This weekly...
The Commonplace: Generative AI in Action: Field Experimental Evidence from…
two large field experiments find generative AI (GenAI) assistants and automated… The Commonplace Weekly Research Digest · August 04, 2026 This weekly digest...
Commonplace: December–February backfill papers are now in review
We were late this week because we finished a December–February backfill; those papers are now in the Commonplace and more analysis is coming soon. The...
The Commonplace: Cache-aware prompt compression: A two-tier cost model for…
engineering-level choices, not new base-model capability, appear to drive large gains… The Commonplace Weekly Research Digest · July 20, 2026 This weekly...
The Commonplace: AI-assisted teams outperform AI-led teams but not…
a large randomized trial finds AI-assisted reviewers match humans while AI-led teams… The Commonplace Weekly Research Digest · July 13, 2026 This weekly...
The Commonplace: Two-override cap preserves sales while trimming inventory…
simple governance constraints on human–AI supervision, via a large retail randomized… The Commonplace Weekly Research Digest · July 06, 2026 This weekly...
The Commonplace: AI augments some wages, pressures others
Where AI lifts wages, where it pressures them, and what still holds this week. The Commonplace Weekly Research Digest · June 29, 2026 This weekly digest...
The Commonplace — 2026-06-22
The Commonplace Weekly Research Digest · June 22, 2026 The Delta - Better measured: Large preregistered randomized controlled trials (RCTs) plus a real...
The Commonplace — 2026-06-15
The Commonplace Weekly Research Digest · June 15, 2026 Executive Summary The single biggest finding this week: targeted human-in-the-loop designs and...
The Commonplace — 2026-06-08
The Commonplace Weekly Research Digest · June 08, 2026 Executive Summary An audit suggests a deployed "proof-of-useful-work" (PoUW) blockchain is consuming...
The Commonplace — 2026-05-25
The Commonplace Weekly Research Digest · May 25, 2026 Executive Summary The biggest finding: production-scale experiments suggest that modestly sized, well-...
The Commonplace — 2026-05-18
The Commonplace Weekly Research Digest · May 18, 2026 Executive Summary Field and lab studies this week suggest AI tools change how work gets done, often...
The Commonplace — 2026-05-11
The Commonplace Weekly Research Digest · May 11, 2026 Executive Summary A growing body of evidence suggests generative AI (models that produce text, code, or...
The Commonplace — 2026-05-04
The Commonplace Weekly Research Digest · May 04, 2026 Executive Summary Benchmarking and deployment-focused studies suggest that where and how models are...
The Commonplace — 2026-04-27
The Commonplace Weekly Research Digest · April 27, 2026 Executive Summary Better digital connectivity is associated with higher firm-level AI adoption and...
The Commonplace — 2026-04-20
The Commonplace Weekly Research Digest · April 20, 2026 Executive Summary The single biggest finding this week: An online randomized A/B test (split test)...
The Commonplace — 2026-04-13
C The Commonplace Weekly Research Digest · April 13, 2026 Executive Summary The single biggest finding this week: preregistered randomized controlled trials...
The Commonplace — 2026-04-06
C The Commonplace Weekly Research Digest · April 06, 2026 Executive Summary A short, targeted information intervention that taught startups how to map AI...
The Commonplace — 2026-03-30
C The Commonplace Weekly Research Digest · March 30, 2026 The Big Picture AI’s economic story this week is a tale of two deployment regimes. In narrow,...
The Commonplace — 2026-03-23
C The Commonplace Weekly Research Digest · March 23, 2026 The Big Picture This week’s papers sharpen the duality at the heart of artificial intelligence (AI)...
