For years, Silicon Valley has sold a utopian future to the world, in which all-powerful AI tools automate entire workflows, both freeing up time for burnt-out workers while maximizing profit for shareholders.<\/p>\n
Many companies across the American workforce subscribed to this vision. Artificial intelligence crept into the workplace as business leaders promised four-day workweeks<\/a> and a true work-life balance in a business world where working overtime has become somewhat of a norm.<\/p>\n Now, workers are saying that\u2019s not necessarily the reality they are facing.<\/p>\n A group of Amazon corporate employees told The Guardian that the company\u2019s internal push for all employees to use \u201chalf-baked\u201d AI tools was actually unhelpful and just added to their workload.<\/p>\n The AI tools often make mistakes, which the workers then have to dig through and correct or consult with colleagues to verify results, according to the report. It all just adds up to the time they spend on each task and has been hurting productivity, the employees said.<\/p>\n \u201cI and many of my colleagues don\u2019t feel that it actually makes us that much faster,\u201d one software developer told the Guardian. \u201cBut from management, we are certainly getting messaging that we have to go faster, this will make us go faster, and that speed is the number one priority.\u201d<\/p>\n The experience isn\u2019t limited to Amazon employees. A recent survey showed that the vision to save time for workers via AI has proven to be a bit bogus across the economy.<\/p>\n