The AI paradox: more efficiency, more pressure
Watch on YouTube The usual promise is that artificial intelligence will give us hours back. But historically, when a technology makes an activity more efficient, organizations often raise expected output. It happened with email. In theory, it eliminated calls, letters, and meetings. In practice, it also…
The usual promise is that artificial intelligence will give us hours back. But historically, when a technology makes an activity more efficient, organizations often raise expected output. It happened with email. In theory, it eliminated calls, letters, and meetings. In practice, it also opened the door to constant communication. Something similar happened with smartphones. Carrying the office in your pocket can be useful, but it also blurs the line between working and being reachable. AI can take that dynamic to another scale. If receiving a draft within an afternoon used to be reasonable, now it may be expected in five minutes. If one person used to prepare ten proposals, now they are asked to review fifty. That is why the issue is not just which tasks a tool automates. The deeper question is what an organization does with the capacity it supposedly frees up.
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