Does your boss preach the virtues of ~? Working AIIn fact, don’t feel like AI could be useful anywhere in your role? Turns out you’re not alone.
a new research Section, an AI consulting firm, surveyed 5,000 white-collar employees and found a wide gap between employees and their managers when it comes to AI and productivity.
In this study, 33 percent of business executives said they saved four to eight hours per week by using AI. Additionally, 19% said AI saved them 12 hours or more each week. Only 2% of executives said AI saved them no time at all.
However, when it came to non-management positions, their feelings towards AI completely changed.
A whopping 40% of employees said that using AI in the workplace did not save them any time at all. Additionally, 27% of employees said they saved less than 2 hours per week using AI, and just 2% said they saved more than 12 hours per week using AI.
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Meanwhile, another damning AI report from software company Workday suggests that even those estimates are exaggerated. Workday research shows 85% of employees say AI actually saves them time I wasted it They say AI saves them time fixing errors. wall street journal.
AI can certainly be a productivity tool for certain industries. According to research, the technology sector is the one adopting AI the most. Some software developers have been able to leverage AI to speed up tedious coding tasks, even at the risk of making coding mistakes.
However, similar benefits are not seen in other industries. In Section’s survey, retail came at the bottom of the list. But overall, 85% of respondents did not have a work-related AI use case or an entry-level use case.
The section’s report also found that 40% of employees feel safe never using AI again.
This echoes Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s warnings about AI at Davos this week, where he urged the industry to consider whether the benefits of the technology extend to the average user.
Nadella said that unless AI systems “improve health outcomes, educational outcomes, public sector efficiency, private sector competitiveness across all sectors, large and small, we will soon lose the social license to even actually take in things like energy, which are scarce resources.”
Now, these reports from Section and Workday suggest that AI is rapidly losing its social license, if it ever had one at all. And that’s certainly a concern for companies betting big on AI.
