“AI is increasing the intensity of work rather than reducing it,” per WSJ.
Everyone keeps talking about how AI is supposed to save time. That’s technically true. The problem is what happens next.
You finish something in half the time, and instead of getting breathing room, you get more work. Not later. Immediately. What used to be a full day turns into half a day, and now you’re expected to fill the rest. That’s what people are actually feeling right now. It’s not less work. It’s the same job compressed and then expanded again. [Read more…]
If you’ve been losing sleep over the idea of AI replacing you at work, you can relax. Your job is safe, at least for now. It’s not that artificial intelligence doesn’t have ambitions; it’s just that it’s nowhere near capable enough to pull it off.