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Pluralistic: AI’s productivity theater
https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/25/accountability-sinks/#work-harder-not-smarterBut bosses' resemblance to toddlers doesn't end with their credulity. A toddler's path to getting that eye-height candy-bar goes through their exhausted parents. Your boss's path to realizing the productivity gains promised by an AI salesman runs through you.
A new research report from the Upwork Research Institute offers a look into the bizarre situation unfolding in workplaces where bosses have been conned into buying AI and now face the challenge of getting it to work as advertised:
The headline findings tell the whole story:
- 96% of bosses expect that AI will make their workers more productive;
- 85% of companies are either requiring or strongly encouraging workers to use AI;
- 49% of workers have no idea how AI is supposed to increase their productivity;
- 77% of workers say using AI decreases their productivity.
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