artificial intelligence is bringing to the workforce
“The rapid advancement in AI systems is sparking a new industrial revolution that is reshaping the workplace with many benefits but also some uncharted dangers, including potentially damaging mental and physical impacts for employees,” Pok Man Tang, an assistant professor of management at the University of Georgia and lead author of the study, said in a statement.
Another experiment in Taiwan similarly divided up a group of 166 engineers who worked at a biomedical company. Workers who interacted more with the AI systems also experienced higher rates of loneliness and insomnia. And alarmingly, they also showed increased rates of after-work alcohol consumption as well.
“Humans are social animals, and isolating work with AI systems may have damaging spillover effects into employees’ personal lives,” Tang explained.