Gap Research
Odesa National Polytechnic University, Department of Economic Cybernetics · PhD Candidate, ML in Pharma Economics
Category: Capability-Adoption Gap
The 8× Gap: Why Healthcare AI Will Never Reach Its Theoretical Ceiling (And What That Means for Every Other High-Stakes Industry)
AI Economics
There is a number buried in Anthropic's January 2026 Economic Index that should alarm every chief information officer, hospital administrator, and healthcare AI vendor currently claiming that artificial intelligence will transform clinical medicine. The number is 8. That is the gap multiplier between what AI systems can do in healthcare — 40% theoretical task coverage — and what hospitals are a...
The Coverage Gap: What AI Can Do vs. What We Actually Use It For
AI Economics
Anthropic published something rare this week: a paper that uses actual usage data instead of speculation. Most labor displacement research asks "what tasks could AI theoretically do?" and then declares a crisis. Massenkoff and McCrory asked a different question: "what tasks are people actually using it for?" The gap between those two answers is the most important number in AI economics right no...
Ukraine’s AI Duality: World Leader in Battlefield Systems, Lagging in Civil Adoption
Gap Research
Ukraine has emerged as the most intensively documented front-line AI deployment environment in recorded conflict history — simultaneously pioneering battlefield AI systems that have reshaped NATO's operational doctrine and building a surprisingly resilient civil e-governance infrastructure under active wartime conditions. Yet beneath these headline achievements lies a stark bifurcation: Ukraine...
AI is Threatening Science Jobs — But Not the Ones You’d Expect
Gap Research
Source: AI is threatening science jobs. Which ones are most at risk? Nature, February 19, 2026 Author: Oleh Ivchenko