As generative AI tools become embedded in everyday work, a critical question emerges: does AI assistance make work better, or does it change what work feels like in ways that matter? This project examines how different generative AI collaboration strategies — from delegating tasks entirely to AI versus co-creating with it — affect not only task performance and output quality, but also workers' psychological experience, including their sense of authorship, cognitive engagement, and satisfaction. By measuring both what people produce and how they feel producing it, this research develops behavioral metrics that go beyond productivity to capture the human dimensions of AI-mediated work. Findings have direct implications for how organizations should design AI-assisted workflows and how AI tools should be evaluated for their impact on the people who use them.

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