Here's why AI is making us work more, not less.

In The Loop · Mar 13, 2026 · 13m · transcript

A UC Berkeley study spent eight months inside a real tech company watching how people actually used AI. The finding?

Workers worked more, not less.

They took on broader responsibilities, blurred the line between work and rest, and filled every freed-up minute with more tasks. Nobody told them to. The tools just made stopping feel like waste.

In this episode of In The Loop, I'm breaking down what the researchers actually found, why this pattern has repeated with every major labour-saving technology for the past century — from the washing machine to the spreadsheet to email — and what German…