People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age
IdeasThe People Who Will Thrive in the AI AgeWhat will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.By David BrooksIllustration by The Atlantic. Source: Jovana Dzopalic / Getty.June 28, 2026 ShareSave Listen−1.0x+Seek0:0021:33Updated at 11 a.m. Researchers from ActivTrak analyzed the digital activity of more than 10,000 workers and found that when people adopted AI, their work life became more intense, not less.
- ▪IdeasThe People Who Will Thrive in the AI AgeWhat will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.By David BrooksIllustration by The Atlantic.
- ▪Source: Jovana Dzopalic / Getty.June 28, 2026 ShareSave Listen−1.0x+Seek0:0021:33Updated at 11 a.m.
- ▪Researchers from ActivTrak analyzed the digital activity of more than 10,000 workers and found that when people adopted AI, their work life became more intense, not less.
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IdeasThe People Who Will Thrive in the AI AgeWhat will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.By David BrooksIllustration by The Atlantic. Source: Jovana Dzopalic / Getty.June 28, 2026 ShareSave Listen−1.0x+Seek0:0021:33Updated at 11 a.m. ET on July 6, 2026This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.Remember when AI was going to take away our jobs and leave humans with nothing to do? So far, that doesn’t seem to be happening. Researchers from ActivTrak analyzed the digital activity of more than 10,000 workers and found that when people adopted AI, their work life became more intense, not less. The time that these early adopters spent on email, messaging, and chat apps more than doubled.
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