{
  "id": 8414242,
  "title": "Scale AI and Passes founder Lucy Guo says AI is making people work harder, not less: ‘I worked a 26-hour day’",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/19/scale-ai-and-passes-founder-lucy-guo-says-ai-is-making-people-work",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-09-19T07:02:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Fortune",
    "slug": "fortune",
    "url": "https://fortune.com/2026/09/19/scale-ai-passes-founder-women-founders-lucy-guo-tech-venture-capital-autonomous-agents-billionaires/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Lucy Guo, a self-made billionaire turned venture capitalist, has observed the opposite effect of AI on workers. While AI promises to make life easier, Guo claims it is actually making people work harder. She recounted a 26-hour workday she recently endured, refusing to go to sleep as she continued to manage AI agents. Guo attributes her grueling work schedule to her personal drive, as well as her investments and her role as CEO of Passes, a creator monetization platform she founded in 2022. Despite AI's potential to make workers more efficient, early research suggests that employees are taking on additional responsibilities and working longer hours. This phenomenon is evident in a 200-person U.S. technology company study conducted by UC Berkeley researchers over eight months. The study found that employees were working at a faster pace, handling a broader scope of tasks, and extending work into more hours of the day, often without additional requests. Guo also highlighted the importance of identifying people with complementary skills when working for a company or investing. She emphasized that \"the people in a company make the company,\" even though she considered herself an average computer science student during her time at Carnegie Mellon University.",
  "summary": "Guo was the world’s youngest self-made woman billionaire before being surpassed by Kalshi cofounder Luana Lopes Lara.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}