Jeff For Local MarketingFounder of SwingPointMedia

ARC-II: Is knowledge work dying?

15 Jan 2026 · 1 min

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Jeff For Local Marketing discusses what ARC2 AI benchmarks reveal about knowledge work. The data shows AI could outperform 70% of workers in 44 industries, work 11 times faster, and cost one-tenth as much. But the claim that knowledge work is dead may be overstated.

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44 specific industries or jobs (as reported by the speaker).

AI could do the job as well or better than 70% of those in the field (as reported).

Reportedly about 11 times faster and at roughly one-tenth the cost (speaker's phrasing: "11 times faster at 11 10th the cost").

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And one of the most important things, and I'm not going to, I'm not going to belabor a lot of points, but one of the most important things I remember I was listening to a podcast that I love listening to and gather information called Moonshots. And on this they talked about the arc1 and arc2 reasoning test. And that's arc1, arc2. And it's, it's a benchmark to find out how smart AI has become and how really kind of how valuable it is in our day to day. And one of the things that they said, hey, that the difference between an AI and a human is its ability to reason. Well, one of the things in this Ark 2 is it does measure reasoning. And so what it did is in the headline of this was Knowledge Work as we know it is dead. And I'm not, I'm not subscribing to that. I'm just going to point out some facts. It said, it pointed out 44 specific industries or jobs where AI could do the job as well or better than 70% of those in the field. So basically what they did is they tested these people and said, hey, if we get a job to AI and we give it to the, the same person who's a professional, 70% of the time it outperformed that human being and it did it 11 times faster at 11 10th the cost.