Today on the AI Daily Brief, why the future of AI has a body.

Before that in the headlines, evidence that using AI at work could be reducing burnout.

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AI Daily Brief Headlines edition, all the daily AI news you need in around five minutes. We kick off

today with a really encouraging report. Something that people have been talking about for a long time

is the idea

that AI, if done well, should be taking tasks off the plate of humans that are wrote, monotonous,

difficult, basically the stuff that's really important that has to get done, but that's a total

pain to get done. And in so doing, if that actually happens, theoretically work should be a better,

more enjoyable

experience, right?

According to a new survey from HR management platform UKG, that might just be the case.

In a sample of 8200 frontline workers, the percentage of workers who were not using AI who

reported burnout was 54%.

Among those who were using AI at work, that number dropped to 41%. That means that the

burnout rate among those using AI was a full 24% lower than those who weren't using AI. Now, interestingly,

in the same study, while about a third of frontline workers reported using AI at work, fears of AI replacement were more widespread than actual use.

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