Why it’s still open
First-person accounts describe late-night agent sessions and exhaustion; a workplace study finds prompting moving into lunch and evenings. But no study has measured sleep, sitting time, heart-rate variability or stress in relation to AI use, and even the general screen–sleep evidence is strongest for young people.
What would count as an answer
Studies combining tool logs with wearable data on sleep timing, activity and stress in people who build with AI.
Papers that tackle it
- Ranganathan Ye 2026 - AI intensifies work — Boundaries dissolving into lunch and evening.
- Zhang et al 2023 - Interventions for problematic phone use — Exercise reduces compulsive phone use.
- Perlis et al 2026 - Generative AI use and depressive symptoms — Mental-health correlates of daily use.
Methods in play
Who’s closest
Placed by the editor, v1 — corrections welcome.
Related questions
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