Stanford's SALT Lab has published a large-scale study of how people and AI agents can work together across the U.S. workforce. Its central finding is not that every AI-actionable task should be automated. Instead, the research shows a clear worker preference: automate low-value, repetitive work, while preserving greater human agency when work is complex, consequential, or difficult to reverse. For businesses adopting AI in everyday processes, that distinction offers a practical alternative to ...