True for any new technology?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/stop-cleaning-up-after-ai-keep-productivity-gains/

6 ways to stop cleaning up after AI - and keep your productivity gains

AI giveth, and AI taketh away, especially when it comes to productivity.

That's the lesson being learned among employees and executives responding to a new survey by Workday. While AI is delivering productivity gains, those gains are being partially washed away when technologists or employees need to go back to implementations to fix mistakes, rewrite content, or double-check outputs. At least 37% of time savings gained through AI are lost to fixing low-quality output, according to the survey's authors, which included the experiences of 3,200 practitioners.

Why we need a human in the loop?

https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-could-make-companies-less-competitive-think-tank-ceo-2026-1

AI tools could make companies less competitive because everyone buys the same brain, think tank CEO says

As companies rush to adopt AI to boost productivity and cut costs, they may be setting themselves up for a new problem: losing what makes them different.

Mehdi Paryavi, CEO of the International Data Center Authority, said widespread reliance on the same AI tools risks flattening competitive advantage across industries, because firms increasingly rely on identical systems to think, write, and decide for them.

Paryavi said that as AI tools become cheaper, more powerful, and more widely deployed, companies risk outsourcing the very thinking that once differentiated them.