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Generative AI tools are supposed to increase employee efficiency.

There are limits to how much companies demand that employees sacrifice for efficiency.

Asking workers to use AI might put them in a position of having to betray their values.

Are we causing a mild form of moral injury if workers are forced to use AI over their objections?

Consider a hypothetical scenario: A company asks its employees to take amphetamines in order to increase their productivity. The company makes the case that the drugs can be taken in safe doses that won’t have adverse side effects. Plus, the drugs will make the employees work faster, help them concentrate better, and make them more creative and efficient.

Most of us would likely balk at the idea. The employees might reasonably doubt that the dosing is actually safe or that it won’t have long-term effects, despite the company’s claims. Even if the dosing was safe,........

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