@misc{mertens2026crashing, title={Crashing Waves vs. Rising Tides: Preliminary Findings on AI Automation from Thousands of Worker Evaluations of Labor Market Tasks}, author={Matthias Mertens and Adam Kuzee and Brittany S. Harris and Harry Lyu and Wensu Li and Jonathan Rosenfeld and Meiri Anto and Martin Fleming and Neil Thompson}, year={2026}, eprint={2604.01363}, archivePrefix={arXiv}, primaryClass={cs.AI}, url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.01363} }