AI is often presented as the answer to our workload problem. It can draft, summarise, organise, design and speed up work that used to take much longer. But if we use the time it saves to add more tasks, more content, more visibility, work and more pressure, then AI may not free us in the way we hoped.

This article is about the AI productivity trap and why it may have less to do with efficiency, and more to do with our relationship to work.