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Scale AI and Passes founder Lucy Guo says AI is making people work harder, not less: ‘I worked a 26-hour day’
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Lucy Guo is no stranger to the always-on culture that defines Silicon Valley startups.
Key facts
- In 2016, she cofounded Scale AI with Alexandr Wang, now the chief AI officer at Meta, before leaving the company two years later — She is also CEO of the creator monetization platform Passes, which she started in 2022
- Lucy Guo is no stranger to the always-on culture that defines Silicon Valley startups
- Still, Guo’s opinion about AI forcing people to work harder also illustrates the paradox of incorporating AI into the workforce
Summary
Yet, at a time when AI and autonomous agents have promised to make every worker’s life easier, Guo says, for some, it’s doing the opposite. “I think AI is making people work harder because you have to be awake for your agents to be running,” Guo said Fortune Daily Show this week. Guo’s marathon workdays are partly due to her personal drive. Still, Guo’s opinion about AI forcing people to work harder also illustrates the paradox of incorporating AI into the workforce.