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title: AI should not make life more exhausting
locale: en
type: journal
category: Perspective
date: 2026-09-06
source: https://eidoslab.cn/en/journal/ai-should-expand-freedom
---

We often measure technology by speed: faster messages, faster plans, faster decisions. Yet when everything accelerates, people do not necessarily become freer. New tools can produce new expectations, denser schedules, and a task list that never ends.

AI should not simply help us carry more work. It should absorb repetition, clarify complexity, and return scarce attention to judgment, relationships, and creation.

## From efficiency to a better life

The useful questions are not only about what AI can do for us:

- Does it remove meaningless repetition?
- Does it help us form better judgment?
- Does it leave room to connect with other people?
- Does it give ordinary people capabilities they could not previously access?

If technology only makes us run faster after technology, it has missed its promise. Good AI products should reduce friction in life, not create a new form of obedience.

## A gentler idea of progress

Eidos Lab looks for the places where AI can genuinely improve how people work and live. Automation should release agency. Knowledge systems should support thought. Agents should amplify human intent rather than decide what is worth pursuing.

Our measure is simple: after technology advances, people should have more time, more ability to act, and more desire to live well with others.