AI in the Workplace Expanded Responsibilities and Intensified Work

AI in the workplace expanded responsibilities and intensified work

Research by the Haas School of Business found that AI expands responsibilities in the workplace.Marut Khobtakhob/Getty ImagesResearch by the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business found that AI expanded responsibilities in the workplace.The study on a company with 200 employees found that workers multitasked more and worked longer.Sam Altman had previously addressed how AI accelerates the work cycle in an interview.If you think using AI means doing…

Researchers Studied What Happens When Workplaces Seriously Embrace AI, and the Results May Make You Nervous

Even if AI is — or eventually becomes — an incredible automation tool, will it make workers’ lives easier? That’s the big question explored in an ongoing study by researchers from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. And so far, it’s not looking good for the rank and file. In a piece for Harvard Business Review, the research team’s Aruna Ranganathan and Xinqi Maggie Ye reported that after closely monitoring a tech company with two hundred empl…

Researchers Studied Work Habits in a Heavily AI-Pilled Workplace. They Sound Hellish

A case study found that workers worked at a "faster pace," on a "broader scope of tasks," and that they just worked generally more.

Gizmodo: Researchers Studied Work Habits in a Heavily AI-Pilled Workplace. They Sound Hellish

Gizmodo: Researchers Studied Work Habits in a Heavily AI-Pilled Workplace. They Sound Hellish. “According to a case study highlighted in some ‘in-progress research’ from Aruna Ranganathan, who teaches management at UC-Berkeley and Xingqi Maggie Ye, a Ph.D. student who is part of Ranganathan’s Berkeley program, AI ‘intensifies’ work, and certainly doesn’t make people’s days easier. It sounds, in other words, like hell on earth.”