Could this be a problem not with AI, but with our understanding of how modern economies work?
The assumption here is that employees are already tuned so be efficient, so if you help them complete tasks more quickly then productivity improves. A slightly cynical alternate hypothesis could be that employees are generally already massively over-provisioned, because an individual leader's organisational power is proportional to the number of people working under them.
If most workers are already spending most of their time doing busy-work to pad the day, then reducing the amount of time spent on actual work won't change the overall output levels.
The assumption here is that employees are already tuned so be efficient, so if you help them complete tasks more quickly then productivity improves. A slightly cynical alternate hypothesis could be that employees are generally already massively over-provisioned, because an individual leader's organisational power is proportional to the number of people working under them.
If most workers are already spending most of their time doing busy-work to pad the day, then reducing the amount of time spent on actual work won't change the overall output levels.