If AI Helps People Work Less, Why Are AI Lab Employees Working So Much?
Publicly, AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are urging other companies to prepare for the AI labor apocalypse, promising productivity boosts so big that businesses will be able to shift to four-day—or even three-day—workweeks. Part of it almost certainly is the ongoing arms race that the AI labs find themselves in, constantly looking to churn out new versions of their models to top their competitors. Per the BBC’s reporting, code sprints remain a staple of the tech company even in the AI era, with teams tasked with working day and night until they finalize a feature or product in an effort to push it out faster.
- ▪Publicly, AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are urging other companies to prepare for the AI labor apocalypse, promising productivity boosts so big that businesses will be able to shift to four-day—or even three-day—workweeks.
- ▪Part of it almost certainly is the ongoing arms race that the AI labs find themselves in, constantly looking to churn out new versions of their models to top their competitors.
- ▪Per the BBC’s reporting, code sprints remain a staple of the tech company even in the AI era, with teams tasked with working day and night until they finalize a feature or product in an effort to push it out faster.
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Publicly, AI labs like OpenAI and Anthropic are urging other companies to prepare for the AI labor apocalypse, promising productivity boosts so big that businesses will be able to shift to four-day—or even three-day—workweeks. These same companies are the earliest of early adopters, openly bragging about how their workforce uses AI tools to tackle upwards of 100% of their normal work…
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