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.
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That’s where a vicious cycle can form: increased capability leads to increased output, which leads to higher expectations, which then pressures further expansion
Same as The Digitalization promised. Instead of reducing work we receive and send even more emails, chats, and notifications.
Same principle as "your spending will increase to match your income".
To the surprise of absolutely nobody
Capitalism gonna capitalize

My goodness! How did you upscale that image so beautifully??
You might hate it, it is probably AI.
AI made posting this Pikachu meme take more work!
It totally looks more like a simplified vector trace of the original image, vectors are infinitely scalable until you export to pixels.
Yea it needs moar jpeg
“…Employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so,” Ye and Ranganathan wrote of their in-progress research.
Every boss: $$$$$$$$
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)
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.