""When...ChatGPT came along, we were all very mesmerized by how powerful it is, how much work it does," said Wei Jiang, professor of finance at Emory University, in a phone interview with The Register. "So we, like other people, anticipated if AI is doing our work, we can work less. And I just find myself actually working longer. So I checked with a few friends, and every one of them says, 'Hey, we're actually working longer.'""
""People fill in fifteen-minute interval [summaries] about what they did in the previous day," explained Jiang. "So you can actually trace out how much people work, and then we also link each occupation to their exposure to AI. So what we find is that higher exposure, if your job is more highly exposed to AI, you actually work longer." As Jiang and her colleagues observe in their paper, the arrival of ChatGPT in 2022 offers an opportunity to examine the labor impact of the technology."
Analysis of American Time Use Survey data from 2004–2023 linked occupations to measures of exposure to generative AI. Respondents provided fifteen-minute interval summaries that allow measurement of work and leisure time. Occupations with greater AI exposure experienced significant increases in work hours and corresponding decreases in leisure following ChatGPT's 2022 introduction. Anecdotal reports of individuals working longer matched aggregate patterns in the time-use data. The evidence indicates that AI-related productivity gains have translated into longer worker time and a redistribution of economic rents away from workers.
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