Anthropic · OpenAI · Google · Meta · Claude · Dario Amodei · BBC Technology
Tech leaders say AI means less work - their staff say they work up to 90 hours a week
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For years now, executives at companies that are pouring hundreds of billions of dollars a year into developing various artificial intelligence tools have insisted that the technology will ultimately mean people will spend less of their time working.
Key facts
- While Meta has since laid off 1 in 10 of its employees, Anthropic's chief executive Dario Amodei has warned that as AI tools inevitably become more productive, it could mean, external even broader
- An engineering director at Google said four years ago that AI would deliver a four-day work week by 2025, external
- There are no limits, external in the US on how many hours a person over the age of 16 can work
- A study, external out of UC Berkeley followed hundreds of workers at a US tech company for eight months as they used AI
Summary
An engineering director at Google said four years ago that AI would deliver a four-day work week by 2025, external. Earlier this year, and one year after that engineering director's prediction, OpenAI took up the challenge, in a manner of speaking. However, a former OpenAI technical employee who left the company last year told the BBC the firm never trialled the four-day work week it suggested others should try while they were there. Instead, the person described what was often a gruelling work culture marked by frequent "crisis meetings", working on weekends, and "super cut-throat" performance reviews that would see colleagues suddenly let go.