AI can weaken relationships between people - and teams suffer as a result.

Link: Team Dynamics Weaken When Employees Turn to AI Instead of Colleagues, by Kate Niederhoffer, Kristina Rapuano, Alex Liebscher, Alexi Robichaux and Jeffrey T. Hancock in Harvard Business ReviewRelationships take time, effort, and practice to keep alive. So in a sense, it shouldn’t be a surprise to see this finding from a survey of more than a thousand desk workers across 20 industries:“The more they turned to AI instead of a teammate, the more their trust in each other and their ability to coordinate seemed to erode.”It turns out that if you start asking an AI system instead of your colleague, coordination and trust drop by at least 20%. These technologies are still relatively new; I imagine that over time this will continue to drop. People who feel isolated in their work today will feel more so as this trend solidifies. Similarly, people who feel untrusted today will only feel more so as their teams continue to ask AI systems instead of them.That doesn’t mean AI is always…