When AI makes you worse at your job
The article discusses the unintended consequences of AI adoption in the workplace, particularly in healthcare. While AI tools are intended to enhance efficiency, they often complicate tasks and create additional workloads for employees. As a result, many workers are facing unrealistic expectations and potential job insecurity due to the pressure to utilize AI effectively.
- ▪Excessive use of AI can lead to a phenomenon called 'AI brain fry.'
- ▪AI tools in healthcare, meant to streamline tasks, often result in more complex workloads for clinicians.
- ▪Many employees are being evaluated based on their use of AI, leading to concerns about job security and unrealistic productivity demands.
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| Original publisher | Vox |
| Canonical URL | https://www.vox.com/technology/489223/ai-work-jobs-productivity-agents-claude |
| Publication time | 2026-05-26T07:38:11-04:00 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-26T11:42:48.625Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-26T11:42:48.625Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
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| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
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| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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TechnologyWhen AI makes you worse at your job Your boss thinks AI makes you faster. Do you?by Anna NorthMay 26, 2026, 11:38 AM UTCShareGiftSome researchers have found that excessive AI use can produce a phenomenon they call “AI brain fry.” Getty ImagesAnna North is a senior correspondent for Vox, where she covers American family life, work, and education. Previously, she was an editor and writer at the New York Times. She is also the author of four novels, including the forthcoming Bog Queen, which you can preorder here.If you’ve ever used an online patient portal to message your doctor in the middle of the night, you won’t be surprised to learn that responding to those messages takes an increasingly big bite out of clinicians’ workdays.So in recent years, hospitals have begun adopting an…
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