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AI: More Productive, But More Work? #shorts
A guest argues that AI has made him more productive but has also generated more work rather than more free time. Pete Cooper picks up the thread with The Jetsons, and the flying car and one-button job that never arrived.
Video summary
The guest starts from a common expectation and rejects it. AI is definitely making you more productive, he says, but you are also doing more. Everyone had the idea that they would use it, do far less, and have more time to relax; in his experience it has been the opposite. It is a great tool, but used day to day it generates more work.
Pete Cooper answers with the 1960s cartoon version of the future. In The Jetsons, the main character flies to work and presses a single button all day. That future never arrived, he says. Instead we simply do more, carrying more responsibility as the scope of our work has grown.
The conversation then turns to what that means for specific roles. The guest mentions a call earlier that morning about bookkeepers, and the importance of levelling up into offering financial advice rather than remaining only a bookkeeper — somewhere he thinks AI can genuinely help.
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Definitely is making you're more productive, but I I'd say you're doing more now. Like everyone kind of had this idea that it was sort of just going to be oh, I'll just use it and then I'll be doing way less and I'll have more time to chill and relax, but I I think it's the opposite. I think it's sort of like it's a great tool, but it's sort of generating more of work if you're using it in your day-to-day. >> Yeah, I love those you know 1960s cartoons like The Jetsons where he goes to work in his flying car. Like where's my flying car? I don't still have my flying car. And then he goes there and all he does is press a button. >> Yeah. >> >> That's all he does at work all day.
That That future never came about. We just do more. We have more objective responsibility. Whereas, you know, the scope of what we do has grown. >> And that's That's interesting you brought that up cuz I was on a call with a guy just this morning talking about bookkeepers and how it's important for them to level up into more financial advice rather than just being a bookkeeper or just a bookkeeper, but being a bookkeeper leveling up. And I think AI can definitely help there.