Dear MEL Topic Readers,
AI is exhausting workers so much, researchers have dubbed the condition
‘AI brain fry’
What if a dozen browser tabs open all at once, waiting for your judgment
or directions? As more efficient and sophisticated AI tools are introduced in
workplaces, more workers and managers are experiencing cognitive overload, called
AI brain fry. It is mental exhaustion from using or supervising AI tools beyond
one’s cognitive capacity. While asking an AI chatbot questions or having an AI
tool do simple tasks like creating charts greatly saves time and workload for
most workers, supervising what AI tools produce requires managers and
specialists to conduct fact-checking and judgment, and fast. This is not a
simple task like driving a car on a highway, but more like riding a monster motorcycle
on a race track, where a simple mistake could easily lead to a fatal crash. To
avoid such cognitive overload by new tools, users of powerful AI tools need to
learn how to make better use of them within their cognitive capacity. Longer
work hours certainly won’t help you work with AI, but attention span will.
Read the article and learn about how AI could bring cognitive overload to
workers.
