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Is AI making us more efficient or just wearing down our brains?

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The promise of artificial intelligence is it'll take on all the boring tasks we don't want to do and free us up to do the fun, high-level thinky work.

But managing the AI tools can be its own kind of work.

A new study from the Boston Consulting Group found that when workers have to closely monitor and manage their AI tools, it can cause cognitive exhaustion.

They dubbed this AI brain fry.

Matt Kropp is a managing director and senior partner at BCG.

He's one of the co-authors of this new study.

Yeah, you have this really evocative description in the study from one engineering manager who wrote, instead of moving faster, my brain just started to feel cluttered.