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Microsoft Says Workers are Already Using AI to Lighten Workloads, at Risk to Their Own Brainpower

Eccentric science-fiction author and technophile Douglas Adams once wrote about how tech was taking an effort-saving role in people’s lives: “Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself,” he explained, and “video recorders watched tedious television for you” for much the same reason. But we’re in the AI era now, and a new Microsoft study suggests that Adams’s metaphor still applies: AI is able to take on much of that “tedious thinking” for you, saving you all the bother of actually working while at work. ….[READ]