Is this because they have less human interaction or is it because using these tools (that potentially cost coworkers their jobs) they see a future that could also cost them their job etc.

It just doesn’t add up, why would working with AI tools opposed to any other software tool cause more drinking, it’s not like they are that fundamentally different. It’s still a tool.

Not specific to AI, some of the people I work with make me prone to drinking as well

“First, the researchers surveyed engineers at a Taiwanese biomedical firm. Within that group of 166 employees, there was a correlation between use of AI and feeling lonelier, which was, in turn, correlated with drinking more, and sleeping less.”

pretty sure this “study” is invalid.

first step is the mgmnt of this biomed firm needs to rethink they way they are treating thier people, I highly doubt thier quality of life degraded AFTER AI and only because of AI not because of outsized management expectations of what people can do with AI (im already seeing this)

It’s not even relevant. The study “surveying 794 employees in all. Over the course of surveys conducted in spring 2021 and spring 2022”. So think about the AI and other tools that people had already been exposed to at the time the survey was done a couple years ago. The “AI” they’re talking about then is nothing like what we’re experiencing now. (e.g., Copilot)