If AI doesn’t drive you into a mental breakdown, then at least it’ll find a way to make you lose your marbles at work.
As one beaten-down employee confessed in a recent Fortune piece about how the tech is reshaping workplace dynamics, she’s now resigned to asking an AI to interpret and respond to her boss’s nonsensical dispatches, because she suspects those were written with AI, too.
“‘I literally think [my boss’] AI is talking to my AI. That is the actual conversation happening right now,’” the employee told Leena Rinne, an executive at the edtech firm Skillsoft, in the Fortune piece. “‘I can’t crack the code of working with [my boss], because it’s just his AI and my AI going back and forth.’”
At Futurism, we’ve extensively covered how AI is causing mayhem in the offices of all sorts of industries. It remains divisive among the regular rank and file, but bosses are absolutely entranced by the tech and forcing their underlings to use it, ignoring their complaints and listening only to the advice of their AI consiglieres. At tech companies, the push to use AI agents has created such a deluge of code that it’s causing an “identity crisis” among the software engineers who’ve been reduced to reviewing the error-laden AI outputs. At Meta, some employees are using AI agents as personal secretaries, deploying them to coordinate with their colleagues, and even their colleague’s own AI secretaries.
