Using AI all day may cause you to consume more alcohol, get less sleep, and feel more alone.

All day use of AI can have detrimental effects on many facets of our lives. An overreliance on AI may result in a loss of interpersonal skills and human connection. It might also contribute to a sedentary lifestyle and a decline in physical exercise, which would be detrimental to our general health. Additionally, relying only on AI for decision-making can impair the capacity for critical thought and problem-solving. Additionally, when AI gathers and examines enormous volumes of personal data, privacy issues surface. Furthermore, ethical issues are raised by the possibility of algorithmic discrimination and AI bias. While AI has the potential to be a useful tool, it is important to maintain a balanced approach and be aware of its limitations in order to protect our wellbeing and prevent the unexpected effects of excessive AI use.

Briefly stated: It appears that those who deal with artificial intelligence run the danger of experiencing mental and emotional problems, loneliness, which could result in binge drinking and insomnia. These risks are in addition to the dire predictions that AI will make everyone unemployed and will destroy mankind.

Fears of widespread job losses are being raised by the new crop of generative AIs' well-documented capacity to automate labor duties and pass for convincing chatbots. The fact that employees converse with machines more frequently than they converse with other people raises another issue.

The influence AI might have on those who use it every day was a topic of investigation for American Psychological Association researchers.

"...formerly commonplace tasks can now be completed instantly (and more precisely) by an AI system, such as getting a second opinion on a client's suggested solution. As a result, more frequent contacts with AI may make workers feel socially isolated, which should heighten feelings of loneliness”, according to the study, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology.

794 employees in the US, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Malaysia were polled by the researchers, who also asked them to record any contacts they had with AI. After dividing them into two groups, one was instructed to refrain from utilizing artificial intelligence (AI) for three days, while the other was instructed to use these systems as much as feasible.

The organization employing AI noticed an increase in loneliness and insomnia in Indonesia and Malaysia. The Taiwanese AI users, 166 engineers from a biomedical company, reported higher levels of alcohol consumption after work as well as the same levels of loneliness and insomnia as the Indonesian/Malaysian groups. The results were consistent among US workers.

It's interesting to note that the AI users reported being considerably more helpful to their coworkers and actively seeking them out to see if they could assist them with their work. This was probably caused by a heightened desire to engage socially with other people brought on by the continual usage of AI.

According to senior researcher Pok Man Tang, an assistant professor of management at the University of Georgia, "humans are social animals, and isolating work with AI systems may have detrimental spillover effects into employees' personal lives."

According to the study's authors, adding human voices to future AI creations to make them less robotic could have a positive impact on how those developments are made. The use of AI by employees should be restricted, and businesses should prioritize human engagement while leaving bots to perform more boring, repetitive, and unimaginative activities.

According to Tang, "AI will keep growing, so we need to take action now to mitigate the potentially negative effects for people who work with these systems."

The study had some limitations, including the fact that it only included a limited number of individuals and that other factors may have affected people's levels of drinking, sleeping, and loneliness. But it's difficult to refute the idea that spending more time with technology and less time with humans can make us feel more alone in the world.