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AI promised to free up workers’ time. UC Berkeley researchers found the opposite. (newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu)
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[–] irate944@piefed.social 9 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

In their observations and interviews with employees of the 200-person company, the researchers found that generative AI didn’t free up time—it expanded what workers felt capable of, and willing, to take on.

The title is either poorly thought out, or bait lol

TL;DR: the study says that AI doesn’t save time, but it intensifies work because the people using it feel more confident in tackling more things (that’s my interpretation after skimming it)

[–] errer@lemmy.world 3 points 2 hours ago

Right now everything the study finds seems to be a positive for both workers and bosses…workers are motivated and more cognitively engaged, bosses are getting more work out of them.

The second part is purely speculation on how this might lead to unwanted side effects in the future, but the study offers no evidence at all for those effects yet.