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AI promised to free up workers’ time. UC Berkeley researchers found the opposite.
(newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu)
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2026
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Anecdotally, workers report a bigger increase in burnout because the increased pressure for more productivity and AI usually talking the more creative parts of the job thus leaving the boring verification and fact checking work to the worker.