Study Finds AI Increases Productivity But Also Intensifies Work and Causes Cognitive Fatigue
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An eight-month study reveals that while AI tools increase productivity, they also intensify work by causing cognitive fatigue, unsustainable hours, and other problems. Companies are struggling to get employees to adopt AI, despite promises that it would reduce routine work burdens and free up time for high-value tasks.
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· 3 pulledAI and machine learning by Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye
the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work—drafting routine documents, summarizing information, and debugging code—and allowing workers more time for high-value tasks is tantalizing
An eight-month study found that these tools made productivity surge—as well as cognitive fatigue, unsustainable hours, and other problems
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