EPISODE · Aug 4, 2024
AI’s productivity theater
from Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com · host Cory Doctorow
This week on my podcast, I read a recent post from my Pluralistic.net blog/newsletter: “AI’s productivity theater,” about the severe mismatch between the bosses who buy AI to increase their workers’ efficiency, and the utter bafflement of the workers who are expected to use the AI…somehow. A new research report from the Upwork Research Institute... <a href="https://craphound.com/news/2024/08/04/ais-productivity-theater/" class="more-link" title="Read AI’s productivity theater">more <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a>
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This week on my podcast, I read a recent post from my Pluralistic.net blog/newsletter: “AI’s productivity theater,” about the severe mismatch between the bosses who buy AI to increase their workers’ efficiency, and the utter bafflement of the workers who are expected to use the AI…somehow. A new research report from the Upwork Research Institute... more
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