Humanities professors find their students able to outsource tasks like writing that are meant to develop critical thinking, which leaves those same students with little learning from the completion of their assignments. Some Amazon corporate employees say that they face an opposite problem: They hear from their managers that AI can speed up all their tasks, but they find the tools of automating their work slow it down, impeding their work rather than improving it. They find themselves evaluated on the frequency with which they use AI tools that perform their tasks worse than they would unassisted, a confusing conundrum. In a statement, Amazon disputed the characterization that AI encumbered its workers rather than enabling them.