What if the AI tools making you more productive are quietly making your workload worse? A new UC Berkeley study published in Harvard Business Review tracked employees inside a real company for eight months — and what they found challenges everything we've been told about AI giving us our time back.

In Episode 3 of Idea Express, host K.C. Barr breaks down why AI amplifies capacity but not freedom — and what that difference costs you if you don't name it first. You'll get three specific action steps: audit where your AI-freed time is actually going, identify the tasks that quietly attached themselves to you, and have the explicit conversation your organization is probably avoiding abou ...