Arianna Huffington Instagram – AI will save us time — but what will we do with it?
As technology has increased productivity, our sense of time famine — the feeling of never having enough time to complete what we need to get done — has also gone up.
But now, with AI, we have an unprecedented opportunity to redefine and reclaim our relationship with time in ways that can have profound effects on our lives. Whether we use AI to move us from an economy that eats up our time and attention to an economy that returns time is one of the biggest questions of the AI revolution.
Our lives are full of interruptions, with technology breaking our time into ever smaller units. And that can be costly — research has shown that task-switching impairs our sense of time, leading us to underestimate the time a task has taken.
Clearly technology’s promise to unburden humans of the demands on their time has not been realized. But AI is not just another platform — it’s a paradigm shift that holds the potential to transform our relationship with time. And by reclaiming our time, we can reclaim our lives and align our time with what we truly value.
If we live to 80, we have around 30,000 days to play the game of life. As AI transforms our lives, it’s forcing us to think about how we value time and thus what we truly value. That’s the promise of AI — not just saving time but guiding us in how to make the most of it. By pairing the power of AI with the power of human wisdom about what we know makes us thrive, we can turn time famine into time affluence, so that when our time on earth runs out, we will have spent it on what matters most.
Click my link in bio to read my piece about AI and our relationship with time in @fortunemag. | Posted on 25/Oct/2025 01:36:18
