[rsanek]

> a Berkeley Haas study which describes how AI usage increases the intensity of work

The marketing around this 'study' has been impressive. They published the HBR article [0] and other promotional material [1] over 5 months ago, but as far as I can tell, the actual study itself (even a preprint version) still isn't available anywhere. Hard to evaluate how believable the results are without being able to actually see the details of how the study was done. For now, all we know is that it's based on ~40 qualitative interviews from a single company in a single industry.

[0] https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies...

[1] https://newsroom.haas.berkeley.edu/ai-promised-to-free-up-wo...

[AyanamiKaine]

Another good read about automation in general is [0] Ironies of Automation. I believe the same principles can be applied to AI automation.

[0] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/644321e78cd2dd37613af...