W7164052418 Working papers AI × management and organizations

The Learning Plateau: Why AI Systems Eventually Stop Compounding Economic Value

Luca Ottinetti

Also recorded as: doi:10.2139/ssrn.6864098 · ssrn:6864098

ssrn abstract page · 2026-06-09

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The abstract defines economic plateauing as diminishing improvement in organizationally meaningful outcomes despite continued technical learning, and links it to saturation, weakened feedback, proxy optimization, environmental instability, and external constraints.

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Scope: deployed AI systems, firm value creation, learning, and durable advantage

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