Cory Doctorow on AI’s productivity theater:

• 96% of bosses expect that AI will make their workers more productive;
• 85% of companies are either requiring or strongly encouraging workers to use AI;
• 49% of workers have no idea how AI is supposed to increase their productivity;
• 77% of workers say using AI decreases their productivity.

Original research paper by The Upwork Research Institute (their framing is, predictably, more optimistic).