https://aifaultline.com/authors/maryam-farboodi/New papers by Maryam Farboodi in the AI Fault Line guide, and news naming them. https://aifaultline.com/research/p/title-311c8a72d5698635/https://aifaultline.com/research/p/title-311c8a72d5698635/This NBER paper builds a dynamic model of automation where task-specific data accumulates endogenously as a byproduct of economic activity and generates cross-task spillovers that raise productivity elsewhere. It matters as a theoretical foundation for treating data — rather than just compute or algorithms — as the accumulable capital driving automation dynamics, with implications for how automation propagates unevenly across tasks and for data policy.