AI productivity plan backfires as task list hits 156

Every few weeks, another AI assistant promises to take a task off your plate. The promises are tempting: it can draft the email, sort the inbox and plan the week. The question is no longer whether these tools can do the work. It’s whether they are lightening the load or quietly adding to it. Morissa Schwartz, an entrepreneur, author and AI strategist, recently discovered just how easily an attempt to improve productivity can turn into another job. “I believe in AI. But my AI assistant gave me more work than it could finish. I opened my daily to-do list and found 156 items,” she wrote in Fortune.Despite having AI assistants to manage her workload, she found her daily to-do list flooded with 156 items. Instead of making her work easier, her AI assistant had created a growing list of tasks. The reminders and follow-ups threatened to overwhelm the very system designed to keep her organised.Her to-do list hit 156 itemsMorissa Schwartz explained how asking AI to help with a project often leads to a plan, which is then followed by a checklist and eventually a series of additional tasks. Though each may appear useful individually, the growing list can turn productivity management into anot...