Pluralistic: AI’s productivity theater

But 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:

https://www.upwork.com/research/ai-enhanced-work-models

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.