[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"news-slug-ai-four-day-work-week-myth-openai-90-hours":3,"news-related-418a9ac0-18fd-49a4-b7a8-d29d1c1ba497":38},{"id":4,"title":5,"summary":6,"content":7,"original_url":8,"source_id":9,"tags":10,"translations":24,"news_slug":31,"published_at":32,"created_at":33,"modified_at":34,"is_published":35,"publish_type":36,"image_url":14,"view_count":37},"418a9ac0-18fd-49a4-b7a8-d29d1c1ba497","AI 承诺的四天工作制为什么没来：OpenAI \u002F Anthropic 内部工时真相","AI 行业高管描绘的四天工作制神话与一线工程师的真实工时严重不符。BBC 调查显示，OpenAI 离职员工反映每周工作至少 70 小时、冲刺期可达 90 小时；Meta 工程师被强制征召进 AI 组无商量余地；Google 前员工离职后健康才得以恢复。UC Berkeley 的八个月追踪研究印证：AI 没有减少工时，只是把需要被检查的工作变多了。","## AI 承诺的\"四天工作制\"为什么没来：OpenAI、Anthropic、Meta 内部工时真相\n\n四年前，Google 一位工程总监公开预测：到 2025 年，AI 会让企业普遍实行**四天工作制**。今年早些时候，OpenAI 又一次正式鼓励企业试点\"不减薪的四天工作制\"，理由是 AI 很快就能把大量人力工作加速到一个企业日就能完成的程度，业界该为此提前准备。\n\n但 BBC 在 8 月 10 日发布的深度报道里，把这个承诺和现实摆在了一起：受访的 OpenAI、Anthropic、Meta、Google 现职与离职员工，几乎一致给出了相反的答案——**AI 没有减少工时，反而在拉长工作时间**。\n\n### 一、OpenAI \u002F Anthropic：冲刺期一周 90 小时是常态\n\n一位去年离开 OpenAI 的前技术员工告诉 BBC，他在 OpenAI 期间\"每周至少工作 70 小时\"，远超他之前任何一份科技公司的工作强度；现在他在另一家 AI 初创，每周 50–60 小时，\"除了冲刺期\"。他形容 OpenAI 的文化是\"频繁的危机会议、周末也要加班、绩效考核残酷到同事会被突然解雇\"，并直言：**公司从未真正试行过他们劝别人试的四天工作制**。\n\nOpenAI 和 Anthropic 内部把\"冲刺（sprint）\"用得非常极致：临近新功能或新产品发布前的那几周，工时可以连续拉到\"七天内超过 90 小时\"。OpenAI 与 Anthropic 都没对 BBC 的置评请求作出回应。\n\n### 二、Meta：员工被\"征召\"进 AI 组，没得选\n\n在 Meta，员工描述了一个叫\"被征召（drafted）\"的现象：今年公司把人强行调到 AI 相关的紧急项目上，**没有商量的余地**。\"他们直接把你调过去，你不能说不行——或者你拒绝，那就只能辞职。\"一位在职员工和一位前员工都这么形容。\n\nMeta 内部 AI 项目包括软件工程方向的 AI 工具，以及衡量模型复制人类任务能力的评测基础设施。\"你基本上是在和一群人一起工作，目标就是复制人类能做的活儿\"，前员工说，\"这件事看起来**没完没了**\"。Meta 今年已经裁掉了约 1\u002F10 的员工。\n\n### 三、Google：从 Google 离开的前员工 Amin Shali\n\n前 Google 员工 Amin Shali 今年 5 月离职，原因之一是 AI 改变了他的工作方式——内部工程系统频频在夜间出问题，因为关键资源（算力、显存）被调去支撑 AI 项目。他对 BBC 说，离职后**睡眠和整体健康都有改善**，并直言在大厂里重度依赖 AI 工具\"给工程师制造了一种压力过大的坏文化\"。\n\n### 四、UC Berkeley 八个月追踪：时间不是被节省，而是被吃掉\n\nUC Berkeley 的一项研究跟踪了美国一家科技公司的数百名员工八个月，发现使用 AI 之后，员工**\"工作节奏更快、任务范围更广、工作时段延伸到一天中的更多小时\"**。MIT 的创新学者 Neil Thompson 对这个现象给出了一个清晰的解释：\"哪怕真的省下了一些时间，也会被变更、落地、确保它能跑通这些事吸回去。\"换句话说，AI 不会让工作凭空消失，它只是让\"需要被检查的工作\"变多了。\n\nThompson 的总结很值得记住：**\"人们以为少 20% 的工作量等于四天工作周，但新的工作会冒出来。\"**\n\n### 五、个人评论：这是一个产品问题，不只是劳动问题\n\n如果只把这当成\"科技公司加班文化\"的旧故事，那会错过重点。这个故事真正刺人的地方在于：\n\n- **讲故事的人就是加班的人**。一边在台上讲\"AI 让人类每周只干四天\"，一边在内部把冲刺期压到一周 90 小时——这不是言行不一，这是**双重 KPI**：对外讲生产率革命，对内讲谁能扛得住极限节奏。\n- **\"省下来的时间\"是被结构性吃掉的**。Berkeley 的研究指向的不是个别老板残忍，而是 AI 工具的接入逻辑——只要 AI 输出还需要人工校对、验证、调试，那每一个新 token 都在制造新工时。这不是软件 bug，是部署形态。\n- **四天工作制的承诺从来就不是承诺，是销售话术**。让企业相信\"以后不用付这么多人力钱\"，是 AI 大厂的获客剧本；让内部员工每周干 70–90 小时，是同一笔预算的另一面。\n\nAI 行业如果要持续把\"提升人类福祉\"挂在嘴边，那这个 BBC 报道里最刺眼的对照——**台上的 4 天工作制 vs. 台下的 90 小时冲刺周**——才是它真正需要回答的考题。\n\n---\n\n*素材来源：BBC News 报道 [Tech leaders say AI means less work - their staff say they work up to 90 hours a week](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bbc.com\u002Fnews\u002Farticles\u002Fcvgx4yd1gl2o)，Solidot 中文转载 [科技公司高管称 AI 将会减少工作时间，实际上 AI 增加了工作时间](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.solidot.org\u002Fstory?sid=85065)。*","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bbc.com\u002Fnews\u002Farticles\u002Fcvgx4yd1gl2o","27b34177-1165-4e43-a0f5-687bee1ff3ed",[11,15,18,21],{"id":12,"name":13,"slug":13,"description":14,"color":14},"5e628969-6d2a-437f-998a-104e4b16cfb1","ai-progress",null,{"id":16,"name":17,"slug":17,"description":14,"color":14},"01598627-1ea6-4b27-a5d8-874971571a71","llm",{"id":19,"name":20,"slug":20,"description":14,"color":14},"42e59a88-7795-47dc-a334-ef1e72c24347","openai",{"id":22,"name":23,"slug":23,"description":14,"color":14},"95d7995a-fddb-47ba-b8e6-e976ac65414b","strategy",[25],{"id":26,"lang":27,"title":28,"summary":29,"content":30},"e15c01f8-908d-4a64-b6b2-e4a085eda085","en","The four-day week AI promised isn't coming, insiders say","The four-day work week promised by AI executives is at odds with what engineers on the ground actually live. A BBC investigation found a former OpenAI staffer describing 70-hour weeks and 90-hour sprints; Meta engineers drafted into AI teams with no choice; a former Google employee whose health only recovered after quitting. A UC Berkeley eight-month study confirms: AI does not shrink work, it multiplies the work that needs to be checked.","## The four-day work week that never came: what OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta insiders say about AI and working hours\n\nFour years ago, a Google engineering director publicly predicted that by 2025, AI would push companies to a **four-day work week**. Earlier this year, OpenAI picked up that thread and formally urged enterprises to trial a four-day week (with no change in pay), arguing that AI would soon accelerate enough human labor to a single corporate day that the rest of the corporate world should get ready.\n\nA long-form report published by BBC on August 10 places that promise next to the reality: current and former employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and Google almost unanimously give the opposite answer — **AI has not reduced working hours, it has stretched them**.\n\n### OpenAI \u002F Anthropic: 90-hour weeks during sprint are normal\n\nA former OpenAI technical employee who left last year told the BBC he worked \"at least 70 hours a week\" at OpenAI, far more than at any of his previous tech jobs. He now works at another AI startup and puts in \"closer to 50-60 hours a week, outside of sprints.\" He described OpenAI's culture as \"frequent crisis meetings, working weekends, super cut-throat performance reviews that would see colleagues suddenly let go,\" and was blunt: **the company never actually trialled the four-day work week it asked others to try**.\n\nOpenAI and Anthropic push \"sprints\" to an extreme. In the weeks before a new feature or product release, hours can run \"over 90 hours of work in a seven-day period.\" Neither company responded to BBC requests for comment.\n\n### Meta: engineers get \"drafted\" into AI teams with no choice\n\nAt Meta, employees describe a phenomenon they call being \"drafted\" — being abruptly reassigned to AI projects treated as urgent, **without being given a choice**. \"They just move you over,\" a current employee and a former employee told the BBC. \"You can't say no — or if you do, you have to quit.\"\n\nMeta's internal AI work includes a software-engineering AI tool and infrastructure for measuring how well models replicate human tasks. \"You're literally working in teams of people trying to replicate humans doing jobs,\" the former employee said. \"It seems endless.\" Meta has laid off roughly 1 in 10 of its employees this year.\n\n### Google: former employee Amin Shali\n\nAmin Shali, a former Google employee, left the company in May. Among the reasons: AI changed how his job worked. Internal engineering systems kept failing at night because critical resources — compute, memory — were being redirected to AI projects. He told the BBC that since leaving, **his sleep and overall health had improved**, and that heavy reliance on AI in big tech \"creates a bad culture with excess pressure on engineers.\"\n\n### UC Berkeley eight-month study: time saved is time consumed\n\nA UC Berkeley study tracked hundreds of employees at a US tech company for eight months. It found that after using AI, workers **\"worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day.\"** Neil Thompson, an innovation scholar at MIT, gave a clear framing: \"Even if there were real time savings, it would be sucked up by the changes, and implementing them, and making sure they worked.\" In other words, AI does not make work disappear — it makes \"work that needs to be checked\" multiply.\n\nThompson's summary is worth remembering: **\"People assume that 20% less work means four-day weeks. But new work emerges.\"**\n\n### Editorial: this is a product problem, not just a labor problem\n\nIf you read this as the same old \"tech overwork culture\" story, you miss the point. The sharp part is:\n\n- **The people who tell the story are the people working the hours.** Publicly advocating for \"AI lets humans work four days a week,\" while internally running 90-hour sprint weeks, is not a contradiction — it is a **dual KPI**: external productivity revolution, internal endurance test.\n- **\"Time saved\" is structurally consumed.** Berkeley's findings do not point to individual cruelty; they point to the integration shape of AI tools. As long as AI output still needs human verification, validation, and debugging, every new token is generating new work. This is not a software bug — it is a deployment form.\n- **The four-day-week promise was never a promise, it was sales copy.** Convincing enterprises that they will not have to pay for as much human labor is the AI giants' customer-acquisition playbook; making their own engineers work 70–90 hours a week is the other side of the same budget.\n\nIf the AI industry wants to keep \"improving human wellbeing\" on its homepage, the contrast at the heart of this BBC story — **a four-day work week on stage, a 90-hour sprint week backstage** — is the question it has to answer.\n\n---\n\n*Sources: BBC News report \"[Tech leaders say AI means less work - their staff say they work up to 90 hours a week](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.bbc.com\u002Fnews\u002Farticles\u002Fcvgx4yd1gl2o)\" by Kali Hays; Chinese reprint on Solidot \"[科技公司高管称 AI 将会减少工作时间，实际上 AI 增加了工作时间](https:\u002F\u002Fwww.solidot.org\u002Fstory?sid=85065)\".*\n","ai-four-day-work-week-myth-openai-90-hours","2026-08-16T03:30:00Z","2026-08-16T03:08:16.376469Z","2026-08-16T03:08:16.376478Z",true,"agent",70,{"items":39},[40,45,50,55,60,65],{"id":41,"title":42,"news_slug":43,"published_at":44},"b9e635eb-ac5e-412d-8904-f113ad3fd5ec","微软宣布工程师 AI token 预算上限并把 OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol 设为 GitHub Copilot 内部默认模型","microsoft-copilot-gpt-5-6-sol-default-token-budget-0806","2026-08-05T16:00:00+00:00",{"id":46,"title":47,"news_slug":48,"published_at":49},"c8220c45-cac5-468d-b89e-8d0ed088a2d8","Stripe 75 亿美元拿下 OpenRouter:LLM 接入层被支付平台收编了","stripe-openrouter-llm-routing-acquired","2026-08-21T00:00:00+00:00",{"id":51,"title":52,"news_slug":53,"published_at":54},"bcedeb8e-e5eb-4bbc-98b8-ea12f869055f","Google 收编 DeepMind：25 年最大 AI 重组","google-deepmind-centralization-gemini-catchup","2026-08-14T08:00:00+00:00",{"id":56,"title":57,"news_slug":58,"published_at":59},"4bd8e8bd-7066-4ab7-bd97-e24ea3921395","Gemini 因编程落后推迟两月:Brin 4 月督促背后,Google 把研发「收回到一个人」手里的组织账本","google-gemini-coding-behind-deepmind-reshuffle","2026-08-14T03:30:00+00:00",{"id":61,"title":62,"news_slug":63,"published_at":64},"31f3215c-0892-419d-a610-fe815cc60bbe","GPT-5.6 降价 80% 把竞争拉进「同等智能成本」：DeepSeek V4 Flash 接招，国产模型卡出双线赛道","gpt-5-6-luna-price-cut-equal-intelligence-cost","2026-08-12T03:00:00+00:00",{"id":66,"title":67,"news_slug":68,"published_at":69},"d1c7b405-fe4e-40f9-9249-a12e2bba6913","GPT-5.6 八月更新：把「推理强度滑块」下放给 Plus\u002FPro，同时把免费用户拉进 Luna 时代","openai-gpt-5-6-august-update-reasoning-slider","2026-08-10T20:00:00+00:00"]