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A guide · The Threshold Collective

Is AI making you faster, or quietly burning you out?

AI does not get tired. You do. A short, plainly written guide on AI burnout: what the research is finding about productivity and exhaustion, the pressure that comes with keeping up, and what to do about it.

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Inside the guide

Three things it says plainly.

The pressure nobody scheduled

The cost of learning the tools, prompting them, checking them, correcting them and keeping up, on top of the work itself.

The paradox in the research

Why the people reporting the biggest productivity gains can also be the ones reporting the most exhaustion, and what that says about how we measure work.

Insecurity, loneliness, and what helps

The two routes from AI use to distress that recent studies describe, and the one thing found to weaken one of them.

The guide names the studies it draws on. The Threshold Collective is a lived-experience-led mental health organisation; read about what we do and The Room.

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If you are in crisis, please don’t wait for software.
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The AI burnout guide · The Threshold Collective