Zanele Munyikwa
The economics of AI and technological change.
I study how AI reshapes work, firms, and labor markets—using experiments and large-scale data to understand its economic effects.
Research Fellow at Cohere Labs · MIT PhD
Selected research
Where AI agents are being built
Cohere Labs · 2026
Mapping the tools developers build to the tasks people do, with the Agentic Task Ecosystem dataset.
What AI exposure scores miss
Cohere Labs · 2026
Examining the limits of static measures and the evidence needed to inform decisions about work and policy.
Cohere blog post · Paper on arXiv
Writing assistance and hiring
Management Science · 2025
A field experiment with nearly half a million jobseekers examines how resume writing assistance affects hiring.