'Secretly We're Going to Be Happy': Sam Altman Claims Overworked Humans Secretly Enjoy the Daily Grind
Meta workers say AI projects have led to 70-hour weeks, weekend work and urgent sprints as executives push productivity gains.
- Meta workers report being abruptly moved to urgent AI-focused teams this year, with employees describing a culture where they are "drafted" into critical projects without choice.
- Mark Zuckerberg has claimed AI will "dramatically change the way that we work," yet employees report clocking far more than the typical 40-hour week, with some reaching 70 hours.
- During a July Q&A with staff, Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth shut down an employee asking if AI productivity gains could revive "Meta Days," a cancelled holiday program.
- Morale has plummeted as Meta fired around 8,000 employees earlier this year; a lawsuit filed last month alleges the company used AI tools to target workers on maternity or disability leave.
- Tech leaders continue to promise AI will supercharge productivity, yet efficiency gains have yet to benefit individual workers as firms like OpenAI and Anthropic push staff through grueling sprints.
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'Secretly We're Going to Be Happy': Sam Altman Claims Overworked Humans Secretly Enjoy the Daily Grind
OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman has said artificial intelligence is unlikely to deliver the dramatically shorter work weeks many have hoped for, arguing that people may be 'secretly happy' remaining busy even as technology makes them more productive. Speaking in late July on the entrepreneurial podcast Relentless, the San Francisco-based tech leader laid out a vision in which AI boosts productivity but does not necessarily shrink the typical w…
AI Was Supposed to Save Us Time. Why Are We Just Working More?
Meta CTO has stated that increased productivity due to AI should result in more work, not more time-off Up until recently, the introduction of artificial intelligence at the workplace meant one of two things: employee layoffs or less work for the humans. But as far as Meta CTO Andrew Bosworth is concerned, there is a [...] The post AI Was Supposed to Save Us Time. Why Are We Just Working More? appeared first on Sify.
Directors of companies that invest hundreds of billions of dollars a year in developing various artificial intelligence tools have been saying for years that, ultimately, this technology will make people spend less time working, reports BBC. Four years ago, a Google engineering director said...
We live in a time when artificial intelligence tool developers (AI) promise that they will reduce working hours. However, technology workers ensure that they now have to extend their days up to 90 hours a week. To the worst, the executive director of Anthropic, company behind Claude, ... Continue reading "IA leaders promise less workload but employees say they work 90 hours a week" The post AI leaders promise less workload but employees say they…
Meta Exec Rages Against Employees Asking for More Time Off Because AI Made Them More Efficient
Even as they promise AI will supercharge productivity, tech leaders are sending a clear message: any efficiency gains won’t help individual workers. During a podcast appearance last month, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said that he doesn’t “expect AI” to lead to a shorter four-hour work week. He argued that workers are “secretly” going to be “happy” about being “much busier” and working even harder thanks to AI — a bizarre and out-of-touch comment from …
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