Secret Chatbot Use Causes Workplace Rifts

Friday, May 30, 2025

More employees are using generative AI at work and many are keeping it a secret.

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... By the numbers: 42% of office workers use genAI tools like ChatGPT at work and 1 in 3 of those workers say they keep the use secret, according to research out this month from security software company Ivanti.

- - - A McKinsey report from January showed that employees are using genAI for significantly more of their work than their leaders think they are.

- - - 20% of employees report secretly using AI during job interviews, according to a Blind survey of 3,617 U.S. professionals. ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-29 10:19 PM | Reply

Good chart in the article, which see ...

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-05-29 10:20 PM | Reply

We have a fairly robust policy around this. Basically we're limited to using it on public company data. We can't feed it any proprietary information and we can't ask it to write customer-facing communications.

Anyway my opinion is AI is for lazy uneducated people. So it's going to be huge.

#3 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-05-30 11:47 AM | Reply