Tech Leaders Promise AI Means Less Work — Their Staff Report 70–90 Hour Weeks
While tech executives at Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Anthropic publicly promise AI will deliver shorter work weeks, current and former employees describe gruelling 70–90 hour weeks, “crisis meetings,” and being forcibly reassigned to AI projects. UC Berkeley research found AI tools actually intensify work: employees work faster, take on broader tasks, and extend work into more hours of the day. An MIT scholar notes that any time savings get “sucked up” by the demands of implementing and monitoring AI systems.
Source: BBC News
Why it matters: The gap between AI industry rhetoric and worker reality — with research to back the sceptical view.
the difference between rhetoric and reality is something to keep an eye on. Also practicing what you preach. The fact that AI solution companies are not able to do this is telling. I do wonder what other cobwebs exist in the closet