Why AI Makes Work Harder

What forty years of research on automation says about your job now

AI can save time on some tasks. But what happens to the time saved — and to the human work around AI — is more complicated than the promise suggests.

Drawing on research across automation science, human factors, economics, cognitive psychology, and workplace studies, Why AI Makes Work Harder examines what actually happens when people work alongside increasingly capable AI systems.

The book looks at:

• why automation tends to shift work rather than simply remove it

• why checking and verification can become a significant part of AI-assisted work

• what research says about confidence and overreliance on AI output

• why missing information can be harder to detect than incorrect information

• how AI changes escalation, supervision, and human attention

• what the evidence says about learning and skill when AI handles part of the work

This is not a prediction about whether AI will take your job. It is an evidence-based examination of how AI is changing the work people still have to do.

Format: PDF ebook — instant digital delivery

Length: 162 pages

Publisher: Groundline Press