The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age - The Atlantic
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What will differentiate people is not how smart they are but their relationship to mental effort.
Updated at 11 a.m. ET on July 6, 2026 This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here. Remember when AI was going to take away our jobs and leave humans with nothing to do? So far, that doesn’t seem to be happening. Researchers from ActivTrak analyzed the digital activity of more than 10,000 workers and found that when people adopted AI, their work life became more intense, not less. The time that these early adopters spent on email, messaging, and chat apps more than doubled. Their use of business software rose by 94 percent. Researchers from UC…
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