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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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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.