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AI Will Not Take Your Job, It Will Multiply Your To Do List

AI Will Not Take Your Job, It Will Multiply Your To Do List6 May21 min

AI isn’t kicking down the office door with a pink slip. It’s buzzing your phone with 400 “helpful” drafts you now have to review by 5 p.m. That’s the strange truth behind today’s workplace anxiety: the apocalypse keeps getting predicted, but the lived reality feels like a rapidly expanding list of actions, approvals, and decisions. We dig into what’s actually happening with AI and jobs, using economic history, MIT style research framing, and a revealing March 2026 NBER working paper that surv...