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PwC’s survey of UK workers found the people who use AI at work report both: 70% say their work got better, and 44% say their workload went up. AI use also thins out below the manager: 85% of senior executives used it in the past year, against 35% of non-managers.
PwC’s verdict: the prize isn’t doing more work, it’s redesigning it. Redesign with the people who do the work.
Evidence: PwC, 2,023 UK workers, self-reported; global survey of 49,364About eight in ten of Vanguard’s investors are not at ease with AI acting on its own, and only 7% of developers trust it with important decisions. Websites are locking personal agents out; Meta and Sierra announced a standard where you choose read-only or write access.
Set every agent to read-only first. It may suggest; a person approves anything that acts.
Evidence: Vanguard, 6,686 of its own investors; Stack Overflow survey; a standard announcedIn a Harvard-led preprint, hearts transplanted between young and old mice took on the recipient’s epigenetic age within months, and 11 archived human heart biopsies pointed the same way. A separate peer-reviewed study linked a voice that “sounds older” to signs of brain ageing.
When a headline says something reverses ageing, look for two words before you share it: mice, and preprint.
Evidence: preprint, mostly mice; voice study peer-reviewed, one snapshot, not a testTime one AI-assisted task end to end for a week, checking included. If it is not shorter than before, redesign it with the person who does it.
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