AI Saved You Time. What Did You Do With It?

We tend to assume that time saved becomes value created, but there’s nothing automatic about that. If somebody saves six hours a week using AI and those six hours are simply filled with more emails, more meetings or a higher expectation of output, the business has certainly increased its capacity. Whether it has become more innovative is another matter.

It may simply have become faster.

There’s a human behaviour problem sitting underneath this. If I find a way of completing my workload much more efficiently and my reward is even more work, I’m likely to learn something fairly quickly about announcing my next ‘efficiency’.