Overworked or Overwhelmed
AI and the Real Productivity Problem
This Is Something Interesting
When it comes to AI, most of the public conversation seems to center around one big question: Will it replace us?
But that’s the wrong question. And it implies the wrong approach to using AI today for probable several more years.
What we should be asking is this: How can we direct AI to assist us—without surrendering the wheel?
This article from the Journal of Accountancy takes a refreshingly sober look at the way people feel overworked and overwhelmed—not just by what they’re doing, but by how much technology is demanding of them. The real issue isn’t AI itself, but how it’s implemented. When designed to support human effort—especially in sifting through data and surfacing insights—AI becomes an asset, not a threat.
We’re nowhere near the age of “independent machine intelligence.” Today’s AI is essentially a hyper-efficient intern with a photographic memory. If we train it well and keep the reins, it can help us do better work, faster.
But if the people building it aim to usurp our judgment, creativity, or jobs, they’ll find resistance—not adoption.
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