The relationship in which the effort needed to produce a result falls substantially under AI assistance while the quantity or quality of the result is maintained or increased. The referent is the changed ratio of input effort to output yield.
RATIO. Numerator: a measure of output yield (validated units produced, or an independently rated quality score). Denominator: a measure of input cost (active user time, edits, or token/turn effort) for the same task. Asymmetry is the ratio of yield to cost compared between AI-assisted and unaided conditions for matched tasks.
Proposed measurement protocol (not yet empirically validated): Within-subject controlled comparison: participants complete matched tasks with and without AI; input cost (logged active time and revision count) and output yield (deliverable count plus blind expert quality ratings on a fixed rubric) are recorded. Asymmetry could be reported as the yield-per-unit-cost ratio and its assisted/unaided difference (paired comparison with effect size); quality-rating reliability across blind judges via ICC.
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