This AI hype is enough to drive you to drink, lose sleep
Tang and his co-authors found that participants who desire social connection with others and are more anxious about belonging at work are more likely to be impacted by AI. They tend to try and reach out and be helpful to their colleagues more, and report higher levels of insomnia and drinking after work. These behaviors were also more likely to be present in employees that spent more time using AI in their jobs.
The correlation between loneliness and insomnia and drinking varies – it was less strong in the 126 workers in Indonesia compared to the 214 employees in the US, for example. The results should be taken with a healthy pinch of salt, since correlation doesn't imply causation. A range of factors are likely to affect participants' sleeping and drinking habits, making it difficult to pin the blame on AI.
Still, the team believes employers should take this into consideration when deploying new technologies in the workplace. They should think about how to limit the time employees spend using AI and consider organizing time for people to socialize. Perhaps decision-making and strategizing should be human-led group activities, while software automates repetitive solo tasks, Tang suggested.
"Mindfulness programs and other positive interventions also might help relieve loneliness," Tang said."AI will keep expanding so we need to act now to lessen the potentially damaging effects for people who work with these systems."
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