Gabriella Rosen Kellerman, MD, writing in Harvard Business Review, coins a term in her March 2026 piece that might just stop you mid-scroll: “AI brain fry.” It is the mental exhaustion that creeps in not from working harder, but from working alongside AI the wrong way.
Spoiler: 14% of workers are already experiencing it, and the impact on productivity, decision-making, and even job retention is far more serious than most of us realise.
The good news? There is a smarter way to use AI that actually reduces burnout rather than causing it. The study has some surprisingly simple fixes. For example, the study found that when workers used AI to offload repetitive, low-value tasks like document summaries, basic coding, and first drafts, burnout scores actually dropped by 15%.
Go read the full article on Harvard Business Review and find out if your current AI habits are working for you or quietly against you.
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