Use AI at Work? Your Coworkers May Be Judging You

Bosses everywhere are saying generative AI is the future. The signals emanating from the C-suites of corporations big and small are clear: If artificial intelligence doesn't take your job, it will at least change it significantly. The catch: If you use AI at work, your coworkers and maybe even your managers may think you're lazy. That is if you can get hired in the first place. This is the finding of a new study by researchers at Duke University published this month in the journal PNAS. Across four studies, the researchers examined whether people who used AI at work worried others would see them as lazy or incompetent and whether those fears were valid. "We found there was this universal social evaluation penalty where people described as using AI are evaluated as being less competent, less diligent, lazier than people who are described as receiving help from all sorts of other searches," Jessica Reif, a Ph.D. candidate at the Duke University Fuqua School of Business and lead author ... Read full article.