随着竞争激烈的AI竞赛推动科技工作者长时间工作，OpenAI新推出的Dots产品负责人表示，AI为人们提供了另一种选择：工作时间大幅减少。
As the competitive AI race pushes tech workers into long hours, the head of OpenAI's new Dots product says AI gives people another option: work a whole lot less.
Alexander Embiricos，他领导OpenAI的企业产品并主管新推出的Dots智能体工具，周四在TechCrunch的Disrupt大会上对现场观众表示，AI的能力为工人创造了一种道路的分叉。
Alexander Embiricos, who leads OpenAI's enterprise product and helms the new Dots agent tool, told a crowd at TechCrunch's Disrupt conference on Thursday that AI's capabilities have created something of a fork in the road for workers.
你可以努力赶上当下。
You can grind to meet the moment.
或者你可以利用AI稍微放松一下。
Or you can use AI to kick your feet up a little.
“我们现在基本上有更多的选择了，”他说。
"We basically have a lot more choice now," he said.
Embiricos在一名记者询问AI系统何时才能真正带来更多空闲时间后发表了上述言论。
Embiricos made the comments after a reporter asked about when AI systems will actually deliver more free time.
该记者分享了一则轶事：一名OpenAI员工使用ChatGPT移动功能在汽车和飞机上工作——这并不完全是新技术带来的解放。
The reporter shared an anecdote where an OpenAI employee used a ChatGPT mobile feature to work in their car and on a plane — not exactly liberated by the new tech.
Embiricos表示，工人现在已经可以将任务“外包”给AI并减少工作量的时刻已经到来。
Embiricos said that the moment has already arrived where a worker can "outsource" tasks to AI and do less work.
不过，有些人对AI的潜力如此兴奋，以至于他们觉得这是一个“有趣且成熟的时机”，可以投入更多工作时间。
Then again, some people are so excited about AI's potential that they feel like it's an "interesting, ripe moment" to put in extra hours.
“我认为这就是为什么很多人现在被激励去非常努力地工作。
"I think that's why a lot of people are motivated to work very hard right now.
这也包括我自己，”他说。
That includes myself," he said.
“但我认为实际上存在这样的选择，而且确实存在另一种完全不同的设置，在这种设置下，你可以委托处理更多的事情。”
"But I think actually there is this choice, and there's totally this other setup where you could delegate a ton more things."
OpenAI正将其Dots工具宣传为一种工作场所助手，始终在线，能够主动处理任务和整理待办事项。
OpenAI is billing its Dots tool as a workplace assistant, always on and capable of proactively handing tasks and sorting to-dos.
Embiricos表示，他在Slack中经常使用他的Dot，参与各种讨论线程。
Embiricos uses his Dot often in Slack, he said, engaging on various threads.
他的观点说明了早期公司在采用AI工具方面的进展程度。
His perspective illustrates how early companies are in their journey to adopt AI tools.
大多数公司尚未自动化其工作任务，许多员工仍在争论应该使用多少这些工具。
Most companies have not yet automated their work tasks, and many workers are still debating how much to use the tools.
与此同时，早期采用AI的公司可以在以前需要几天或几周才能完成的工作中迅速推进，尤其是在软件工程领域。
Early AI adopters, meanwhile, can sprint through some work that used to take days or weeks, especially in software engineering.
Embiricos总结了他觉得工人所处的情况：“你要么选择：你是扩大你能做什么的雄心，还是选择做得更少？”
Embiricos summed up the situation he feels workers are in: "You either choose: do you expand the ambition of what you can do, or do you do less?
我确实认为我们已经到了那个地步。
I do think we're there."