Signal 41% have used AI to automate part of their job, often unknown to the employer

Summary

Many workers are quietly automating parts of their jobs with AI, making it hard to know who actually did the work. Deloitte reports that 41 percent of respondents say they have used AI to automate some of their tasks, often without their employer knowing. This creates a parallel data ecosystem in which AI hides or imitates human contributions. Unsurprisingly, 80 percent of executives in the survey worry that workers use AI to look more productive than they really are. Deloitte links this to a growing shadow economy of unregulated AI tools and to AI's shift from support tool to co-author. The trend raises hard questions about how to assess, reward and value workers.