Free Chapter 1 — The Tired Part

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AI can make work faster. But what happens when producing an answer becomes easier while deciding whether that answer deserves to be trusted becomes harder?

In “The Tired Part,” we follow Priya, a knowledge worker whose AI-assisted work is finished earlier than before—yet leaves her unexpectedly exhausted. The chapter examines the hidden work of checking, verifying, integrating and supervising AI-generated output, and asks a deeper question: where did the work actually go?

Drawing on recent research alongside decades of research on automation, this opening chapter explores the changing shape of human effort in AI-assisted work. It also makes an important distinction: AI does not simply make work harder. Depending on how it is used, it can remove repetitive work and reduce the burden of drudgery, while other arrangements can create new demands for oversight and verification.

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