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Key Takeaways

Burnout thrives in ambiguity. By all means, encourage your teams to use AI. But make your expectations clear, your processes transparent and your boundaries firm.

When it comes to their AI use, leaders should codify best practices and make sure every employee understands when to use AI tools and how.

If you’re finding yourself exhausted at the end of each day — mentally depleted, unable to do much more than scroll or stare at Netflix — you’re not alone.

Heavy AI users are increasingly suffering from a phenomenon researchers are calling “brain fry” — as one CEO put it , it’s not from work itself, but from managing all the work his AI tools are doing on his behalf. “It’s not burnout in the traditional sense. It’s something weirder — a kind of cognitive overload masked as productivity,” he explains.

I admit I’ve felt this myself.…