If you take a July report pubished by Microsoft (which has invested billions into OpenAI) at face value, you might have reason to fear artificial intelligence’s impact on your job.

After analysing hundreds of thousands of conversations with its Co-Pilot chatbot, Sky News reports , the company “concluded [AI] could complete at least 90% of the work carried out by historians and coders, 80% of salespeople and journalists, and 75% of DJs and data scientists”.

But if you ask the researchers behind a study published by the Harvard Business Review , generative AI tools are actually “destroying” workplace productivity.

That, they say, is because it creates “workslop” – a trend that over half of workers surveyed say annoys them.

What is “workslop”?

The inventors of the term say it r

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