Two-thirds of workers are secretly using banned AI apps — and they're feeding yo

AI may be proven to make us less intelligent (1), but that isn't stopping the vast majority of people from using ChatGPT and similar applications at their office jobs — and neither are employer policies, apparently.

New research (2) from PagerDuty — an AI operations platform — shows that far more staff are turning to Large Language Models and similar tools to complete their daily work than one might think. And, most are doing so when they know they shouldn't be, and/or when dealing with private information.

The firm conducted a survey of more than 1,200 office professionals at non-tech corporations and non-profits in the US, UK, Australia and Japan that generate or manage at least $500 million.

What they found was an extremely high level of over-confidence in AI usage, with 72% of respondents asserting that they know more about AI and its potential applications to their role than managers creating workplace policies around the tech.

On top of that, among workers who use AI on the job, 66% are knowingly doing so in the face of rules that outright ban such programs. (This is despite about half, 48%, admitting that they'd faced formal consequences as a result.) This prohibited usa

Fuente original: Yahoo Finance (https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/two-thirds-workers-secretly-using-130000234.html)