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When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”

Bedard, Julie, Matthew Kropp, Megan Hsu, Olivia T. Karaman, Jason Hawes, and Gabriella Rosen Kellerman · Harvard Business Review · 5 March 2026

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This study supplies the ‘brain fry’ numbers: more serious errors, more decision fatigue and a point at which adding another AI tool stopped helping and began making the work worse.

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Bedard, Julie, Matthew Kropp, Megan Hsu, Olivia T. Karaman, Jason Hawes, and Gabriella Rosen Kellerman. 'When Using AI Leads to “Brain Fry”.' Harvard Business Review, 5 March 2026.