{"podcast":{"title":"This Machine Kills","slug":"this-machine-kills-428599","podcast_index_feed_id":428599,"rss_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:861066976/sounds.rss","website_url":"https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod","image_url":"https://i1.sndcdn.com/avatars-9ph1FoDtmpfiZRzy-vEy7cg-original.jpg","author":"This Machine Kills","episode_count":490,"summary":"A podcast about technology and political economy …","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T22:20:21.756589+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-machine-kills-428599"},"episode":{"title":"449. Efficiently Drowning in Work","slug":"449-efficiently-drowning-in-work","published_at":"2026-03-17T22:46:15+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-machine-kills-428599/449-efficiently-drowning-in-work","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-machine-kills-428599","url":"https://soundcloud.com/thismachinekillspod/449-efficiently-drowning-in","audio_url":"https://feeds.soundcloud.com/stream/2285758952-thismachinekillspod-449-efficiently-drowning-in.mp3","summary":"TMK thought validated yet again! We talk about two big studies into the effects of AI on workloads, which show with in-depth empirical detail how AI intensifies and expands labor, rather than lightens and shrinks workloads. Weird! Did anybody know this would happen??? ••• TMK live show in San Francisco, 7pm on Thursday, March 19th, with our friends at Bay Area Current and DSA SF. Join us! https://www.eventbrite.com/e/decoding-the-tech-vibe-shift-a-night-of-left-wing-tech-criticism-tickets-1984745130112 ••• AI Isn’t Lightening Workloads. It’s Making Them More Intense. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-isnt-lightening-workloads-its-making-them-more-intense-e417dd2c ••• AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it Standing Plugs: ••• Order Jathan’s book: https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520398078/the-mechanic-and-the-luddite ••• Subscribe to Ed’s substack: https://substack.com/@thetechbubble ••• Subscribe to TMK on patreon for premium episodes: https://www.patreon.com/thismachinekills Hosted by Jathan Sadowski (bsky.app/profile/jathansadowski.com) and Edward Ongweso Jr. (www.x.com/bigblackjacobin). Production / Music by Jereme Brown (bsky.app/profile/jebr.bsky.social)","meta_description":"TMK thought validated yet again! We talk about two big studies into the effects of AI on workloads, which show with in-depth empirical detail how AI inten…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4627,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/this-machine-kills-428599/episodes/449-efficiently-drowning-in-work/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/this-machine-kills-428599/449-efficiently-drowning-in-work.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}